Autres citations de Rûmî:
"Danse, quand tu es éventré. Danse, si tu as arraché le bandage. Danse au milieu des combats. Danse dans ton sang. Danse quand tu es parfaitement libre." / "Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free." (Rûmî, 1207-73) [à comparer à Friedrich Nietzsche: "Danses avec les pieds, avec les idées, avec les mots, et dois-je aussi ajouter que l'on doit être capable de danser avec la plume?" / "On voit à la démarche de chacun s'il a trouvé sa route, l'homme qui s'approche du but ne marche plus, il danse."]
"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." / "Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange and stronger pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."
"There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger."
"Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it."
"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom."
"Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues."
"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."
"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home."
"Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged."
"L'eau, les histoires, le corps, tout ce que nous faisons, sont des médiums qui cachent et montrent ce qui est caché." / "Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden."
"Mes gémissements de chagrin tourmentent mon âme." / "My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul."
"Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
"Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us."
"La poésie peut être dangereuse, surtout la belle poésie, car elle donne l'illusion d'avoir vécu l'expérience sans vraiment la vivre." / "Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it."
"Avant que la mort ne vous enlève ce qui vous a été donné, donnez ce qu'il y a à donner." / "Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give."
"This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."
"Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete." (Rûmî, 1207-73) [on pense à Blaise Pascal (1623-1662): "L'homme n'est ni ange ni bête, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la bête. S'il se vante, je l'abaisse; s'il s'abaisse, je le vante; et le contredis toujours, jusqu'à ce qu'il comprenne qu'il est un monstre incompréhensible."]
"Hier, j'étais intelligent, alors je voulais changer le monde. Aujourd'hui, je suis sage, alors je me change moi-même." / "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
"Vendez votre intelligence et achetez la confusion." / "Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge." / "Verkaufe deine Klugheit und kaufe Verwirrung. Klugheit ist bloße Meinung. Verwirrung bringt intuitive Erkenntnis."
"Votre cœur a la taille d'un océan. Allez vous retrouver dans ses profondeurs cachées." / "Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths."
"Tu erres de pièce en pièce à la recherche du collier de diamants qui est déjà autour de ton cou !" / "You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!"
"Peut-être cherchez-vous parmi les branches, ce qui n'apparaît que dans les racines." / "Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots."
"Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it."
"The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!"
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
"Ami, notre proximité est la suivante: où que tu mettes le pied, sens-moi dans la fermeté sous toi." / "Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you."
"Someday our souls will be one and our union will be forever. I know that everything I give you comes back to me. So I give you my life , hoping that you will come back to me."
"Très peu de choses poussent sur des rochers déchiquetés. Soyez broyé. Soyez émietté, pour que les fleurs sauvages poussent là où vous êtes." / "Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are."
"God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery."
"Si tout ce que vous pouvez faire est de ramper, commencez à ramper." / "If all you can do is crawl, start crawling."
"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly." / "You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"
"Une liberté secrète s'ouvre à travers une crevasse que tu peux à peine voir." / "A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see."
"Mon cher cœur, ne pense jamais que tu es meilleur que les autres. Écoute leurs chagrins avec compassion. Si tu veux la paix, n'entretiens pas de mauvaises pensées, ne colporte pas les ragots et n'enseigne pas ce que tu ne sais pas." / "My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know."
"Toute ton anxiété est due à ton désir d'harmonie. Cherche la disharmonie et tu gagneras la paix." / "All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace."
"Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds."
"Tú no eres solo una gota en el océano, tú eres el poderoso océano en una gota." / "Tu n'es pas qu'une goutte d'eau dans l'océan. Tu es le puissant océan dans la goutte." / "You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop."
"Do not look back, No one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever. If you dwell on the past or future, You will miss the moment."
"Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."
"A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth."
"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."
"Le jeûne est le premier principe de la médecine." / "Fasting is the first principle of medicine."
"Je suis entré dans mon cœur pour voir comment c'était. Quelque chose là-bas me fait entendre le monde entier pleurer." / "I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping."
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Des citations d'amour de Rumi se lisent ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/111222/lamour-selon-rumi
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Mocharrafoddin Saadi (1211-92) est cité ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/051021/ne-demande-la-verite-qua-tes-ennemis
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