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| The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. The spiritual search is on another level; spiritual wine is another substance! The spiritual path wrecks the body and afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure and with that treasure builds it better than before. ~ Rumi Rumi J. Mathanwi I translated by C Helmminski, K Helmminski In: Rumi: Daylight. Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala, 1999 |
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Friday, 25 May 2012
Spiritual wine is another substance....BY Rumi
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The intellectual quest is
ReplyDeleteexquisite like pearls and coral,
But it is not the same as the spiritual quest.
The spiritual quest is on another level altogether,
Spiritual wine has a subtler taste.
The intellect and the senses
investigate cause and effect.
The spiritual seeker surrenders
to the wonder.
~ Rumi