Rumi Quotes About Drinking

• I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?

  Rumi

  Sweet, Drinking, Grief

• What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

  Rumi

  Drinking, Mean, Ego

• Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Courage, Children

  "The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose". Book edited by Stephen Mitchell, 1991.

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