Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Jalal ud-Din Rumi More Quotes by Jalal ud-Din Rumi More Quotes From Jalal ud-Din Rumi I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere. I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but He was not there either. I questioned the scholars and philosophers but He was beyond their understanding. I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him He was nowhere else to be found. Jalal ud-Din Rumi Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Jalal ud-Din Rumi When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Jalal ud-Din Rumi Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love. Jalal ud-Din Rumi I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying Jalal ud-Din Rumi
