Rumi Quotes About Ignorance

• The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

  Rumi

  Struggle, Ignorance, Angel

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

• Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace

  Rumi

  Ignorance, Knowing, Palaces

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.58, Penguin UK

• If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

  Rumi

  Ignorance, Leader, Darkness

• I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love. Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars. You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love. Even so, you have always been connected to me. Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest. I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.

  Rumi

  Stars, Ocean, Ignorance

• You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

  Rumi

  Ocean, Ignorance, Unity

• IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.

  Rumi

  Crazy, Ocean, Eye

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