Masnavi

These are some excerpts from Masnavi, by Rumi. I'm awestruck because of the way these words hit me. I just HAVE to get these books!

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion; bewilderment intuition.

I regard not the outside and the words, I regard the inside and the state of the heart. I look at the heart if it be humble, Though the words may be the reverse of humble. Because the heart is substance and the words accidents.

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.


Why should I fear?
When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as man,
To soar with angels blest;
But even from angelhood I must pass on..