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Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
They have left behind the world of deceitful games. They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Oh sky, without me, do not change, Oh moon, without me, do not shine; Oh earth, without me, do not grow, Oh time, without me, do not go. Others give you the name of Love, And me the sultan of that love. Higher than such illusions, Oh, you cannot go, without me.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.
Agony |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
The universe and the light of the stars come through me.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection.
Existence | Imagination | Mistake |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.
Soul |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.
S. L. A. Marshall, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
Simply underscores the fact that primarily war is made with fire, and that logistics have a decisive effect upon the arena only when they enable military forces to bring a superior fire to bear.
S. L. A. Marshall, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second.
War |
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
You can also offer your prayers, obedience, and endurance of dryness to Our Lord, for the good of other souls, and then you have practiced intercession. Never mind if it all seems for the time very second-hand. The less you get out of it, the nearer it approaches to being something worth offering; and the humiliation of not being able to feel as devout as we want to be, is excellent for most of us. Use vocal prayer... very slowly, trying to realize the meaning with which it is charged and remember that... you are only a unit in the Chorus of the Church, so that the others will make good the shortcomings you cannot help.
I shall give thee such speech and wisdom that no one shall be able to resist. I shall bring thee before Pontiffs and the rulers of the Church.
Giving |
O loving, tender Word of God, You tell me: 'I have marked the path and opened the gate with My Blood; do not be negligent in following it, but take the same road which I, eternal Truth, have traced out with My Blood.' Arise, my soul, and follow your Redeemer, for no one can go to the Father but by Him. O sweet Christ, Christ-Love, You are the way, and the door through which we must enter in order to reach the Father.
Charity | Enough | Excess | Giving | God | Grace | Love | Man | God |