Let go of thought and bring it not into your heart, for you are naked and thought is an icy wind. You think in order to escape from torment and suffering, but your thinking is torment's fountainhead. Know that the bazaar of God's Making is outside of thought...
(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 256)
Oh heart, sleep from thought, for thought is the heart's snare. Go not to God except disengaged from all things...
(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 261)
...I sit in the road waylaying the caravan of imagination for the sake of His encounter. Other than the servants of His heartache and the messengers of His salve, I strike the head and feet of anyone who shows his face.
(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 258)
First give that cup to the talkative ego so that its rational faculty will tell no more tales. Once rationality is blocked, a torrent will come and erase all signs of this world and place.
(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 321)
Thinking is for the sake of acquisition -- but you have become bestowal from head to foot!
(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 230)
All day long the kicks of imagination, worry over profit and loss, and fear of extinction leave the spirit no purity or gentleness or splendor, nor any way to travel to heaven. He is truly asleep who has hope in every image {which passes through his mind} and converses with it.
(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 255)
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
(The Essential Rumi, p. 3)
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