God created suffering and heartache so that joyful-heartedness might appear through its opposite. Hence hidden things become manifest through opposites. But since God has no opposite, He remains hidden... God's light has no opposite within existence, that through its opposite it might be made manifest.
(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 49)
That Oneness is on the other side of descriptions and states. Nothing but duality enters speech's playing field.
(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 275)
Thy Attributes cannot be understood by the vulgar without analogy, yet analogy increases the mistaken idea of Thy similarity with the creatures.
(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 277)
The beauty of the Unseen Form is beyond description -- borrow a thousand illuminated eyes, borrow!
(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 263)
Love makes forms in separation. But at the time of meeting, the Formless shows His head ands says, "I am the root of the root of sobriety and intoxication; the beauty you see in forms is My reflection. Now I have removed the veils, I have displayed Beauty without intermediary. Since you have become so interwoven with My reflection, you have found the strength to view the Essence alone."
(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 266)
We and our existences are nonexistences. Thou art Absolute Existence showing Thyself as perishable things.
(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 24)
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