The Pocket Rumi by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Author:Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala

EXCUSES

Someone says, “I can’t help feeding my family.

I have to work so hard to earn a living.”

He can do without God,

but not without food;

he can do without Religion,

but not without idols.

Where is one who’ll say,

“If I eat bread without awareness of God,

I will choke.”

MATHNAWI II, 3071–79

THE ARMOR OF SELFLESSNESS

If you put on the armor of a warrior,

yet are unable to defend yourself, you’ll die.

Make your soul a shield,

bear what God sends you,

put down the sword.

Whoever is headless saves his head;

the selfless cannot be struck.

Those weapons are your selfish strategy,

the defense that wounds your own soul.

MATHNAWI II, 3169–71

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