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On keeping good company in thought and deed Mevlana Rumi says:
He that is bitter will assuredly be attached to those that are bitter: how should the vain breath
(false words) be joined with the truth?
O brother, you are that same thought (of yours): as for the rest, you are only bone and fibre.
If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thorn, you are fuel for the bath stove.
Masnevi Book 2 (276-278)
May 1st 2005
He that is bitter will assuredly be attached to those that are bitter: how should the vain breath
(false words) be joined with the truth?
O brother, you are that same thought (of yours): as for the rest, you are only bone and fibre.
If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thorn, you are fuel for the bath stove.
Masnevi Book 2 (276-278)
May 1st 2005
| ...the purpose of life is to live it well. Count Leo Tolstoy 'On Life' Feb 25th 05 |
| Where is one that, born of woman, altogether can escape From the lower world within him, moods of tiger, or of ape? Tennyson December 2005 |
| The water and clay, when it fed on the breath of Jesus spread wings and pinions, became a bird and flew. Your glorification (of God) is an exhalation from the water and clay (of your body): it became a bird of paradise through the breathing (into it) of your hearts sincerity. Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi Mathnawi: book 1; line 865. September 14th 2004 |