Rumi: Fatemeh Keshavarz, Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi

Fatemeh Keshavarz, Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi — Rumi

Fatemeh Keshavarz, Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi

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The bodies of the righteous are as pure souls Their words, their actions, their — Rumi
Love carried off as plunder the chattels which we possessed, We are independent — Rumi
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place. — Rumi
O heart! weak follower of the weak, That thou shouldst traverse land and sea, In — Rumi
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do. — Roger Ascham
Away then with wisdom and knowledge, and great robbers will disappear! — Zhuang Zhou
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it' — Abraham Lincoln
Nemo solus satis sapit. — No man is wise enough by himself. Plautus
Es ist eine der grössten Himmelsgaben, So ein lieb' Ding im Arm zu haben. It is — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music directly represents the passion of the soul. If one listens to the wrong k — Aristotle
Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued. — William Cowper
Then take him to develop, if you can And hew the block off, and get out the man. — Alexander Pope