The Authentic Rumi

The whole world is a form for truth.
When someone does not feel grateful for that, the forms appear to be as he feels, they mirror his anger, his greed, his fear.
Make peace with the universe (Allah’s Decree)
Take joy in it.
It will turn to gold...
Every moment a new beauty.
—Mawlana Rumi

One night, a moth circled around a glowing candle.
Its friends warned, “Don’t go too close! You’ll burn!”
But the moth replied,

“I would rather burn in this flame
than live a thousand lifetimes in darkness.”

It flew into the light, gave itself up—and was gone.
Rumi said:

“This is how the lover is with the Beloved.
When true love appears, the self disappears.”