![]() ![]() Reason is the shadow cast by God God is the sun. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is like an officer when the King appears.The Masnavi, Book III, Story V, as translated in Masnavi I Ma'navi : The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (1898) by Edward Henry Whinfield.Neglect the foam, and regard the sea with your eyes. The sea itself is one thing, the foam another The whole of the object is not grasped in the palm. The eye of outward sense is as the palm of a hand, If you give a candle to everyone, their differences will be gone, One, as it were, called it "Dal" and another "Alif." According to the part which each felt, he gave a different description of the animal. One felt its trunk, and declared that the beast resembled a water-pipe another felt its ear, and said it must be a large fan another its leg, and thought it must be a pillar another felt its back, and declared the beast must be like a great throne. But as the place was too dark to permit them to see the elephant, they all felt it with their hands, to gain an idea of what it was like. Some Hindoos were exhibiting an elephant in a dark room, and many people collected to see it.Masnavi-I Ma'navi, Book III, verses 1259–1270.As quoted in The Perennial Philosophy (1945) by Aldous Huxley.Variant: Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.Ĭleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.The Masnavi, Book IV, Story II, as translated in Masnavi I Ma'navi : The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (1898) by Edward Henry Whinfield.Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.Ĭleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition. Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,.I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. ![]() Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. I tremble in the wind- beauty like silk from Turkestan. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? A leaf trembles. I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition. Quotes Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. 1.6 Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi (2000).1.4 Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999). ![]()
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