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Eyesight is in conflict with inner knowing. Always check your inner state with the Lord of your heart.

Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

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Inner Knowing

Topic: Prayer, Meditation, & Contemplation

“Eyesight is in conflict with inner knowing.
Always check your inner state
with the Lord of your heart.
A little while alone in your room
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given you.”

Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi [Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana] 1207-1273.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), also named Mawlānā, which means Our Master, is one of the Islamic world's greatest poets. He is usually known in the English-speaking world simply as Rumi. He was a Sufi mystic, philosopher and lover of humanity. His followers began a school of mysticism to encourage and celebrate his teachings—the Sufi branch known to many Westerners as the 'Whirling Dervishes', but whose proper name is the Mevlevi order.

(1207-1273) Islam
The Essential Rumi

Rūmī, Jalāl al-Dīn. The Essential Rumi. Translated by Coleman Barks, HarperCollins, 2004.

Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī [aka Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi].

Additional Rūmī Quotes

When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
When actions come from another section,
the feeling disappears.
Don’t let others lead you. They may be blind,
or worse, vultures. Reach for the rope
of God. And what is that?
Putting aside self-will.
Because of willfulness people sit in jail.
From willfulness, the trapped birds’ wings are tied.
From willfulness, the fish sizzles in the skillet.
The anger of police is willfulness. You’ve seen
a magistrate inflict visible punishment.
Now see the invisible.
If you could leave selfishness, you would see
how your soul has been tortured.
We are born and live inside black water in a well.
How could we know what an open field of sunlight is?
Don’t insist on going where you think you want to go.
Ask the way to the Spring.
Your living pieces will form a harmony.
There is a moving palace that floats through the air,
with balconies and clear water running in every part of it,
infinity everywhere, yet contained under a single tent.
–Rūmī, Jalāl al-Dīn [aka Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi]. The Essential Rumi. Translated by Coleman Barks, HarperCollins, 2004.

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