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“The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.”

As quoted in "A feather on the breath of God" by Nur Elmessiri in Al-Ahram Weekly Online Issue No. 385 (9 - 15 July 1998) http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/385/cu2.htm

“From Hallaj, I learned to hunt lions, but I became something hungrier than a lion.”

"Hallaj" Ch. 11 : Union
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

“We talk about this and that. There’s no rest except on these branching moments.”

"Spring is Christ" in Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 38
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

“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 intuition.”

The Masnavi, Book IV, Story II, as translated in Masnavi I Ma'navi : The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (1898) by Edward Henry Whinfield
As quoted in The Perennial Philosophy (1945) by Aldous Huxley
Вариант: Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.

“Do not believe in an absurdity
no matter who says it.”

"The Three Fish" Ch. 18 : The Three Fish, p. 196
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be.”

Источник: Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995), Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 46

“There is a community of the spirit
Join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street,
and being the noise.”

"A Community of the Spirit" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)