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Book cover for The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we ...more
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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Without delay, from the middle of his (closed) fist every pebble began to pronounce the (Moslem's) profession of faith. Each said, “There is no god” and (each) said, “except Allah”; (each) threaded the pearl of “Ahmad is the Messenger of Allah.”
Jalâl ud Dîn Rûmî, Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi

“Philosophy should come to know the dimensions, qualities and quantities of the earth, the depths of the sea, the capacity of fire and the effects and nature of all these things in order to admire, revere and praise the divine artistry and intelligence.”
Asclepius, Asclepius: The Perfect Discourse of Hermes Trismegistus

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“The married pair must match one another: look at a pair of shoes or boots. 2310. If one of the shoes is too tight for the foot, the pair of them is of no use to thee. Hast thou ever seen one leaf of a (folding) door small and the other large, or a wolf mated with the lion of the jungle? A pair of sacks on a camel do not balance properly when one is small and the other of full size.”
Jalâl ud Dîn Rûmî, Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi

“69The righteous are not in any way held accountable for the wrongdoers; their only duty is to remind them, so that they may be mindful of God.”
Anonymous, The Qur'an

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“GOD is of the East possess’d, God is ruler of the West; North and South alike, each land Rests within His gentle hand. He, the only righteous one, Wills that right to each be done. ’Mongst His hundred titles, then, Highest praise be this!—Amen. Error seeketh to deceive me, Thou art able to retrieve me; Both in action and in song Keep my course from going wrong. THE”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, West-Eastern Divan [Illustrated]

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