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Rudolf Steiner, fully Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner
Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have it's true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.
Rudolf Steiner, fully Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner
What each individual really needs can only be known by himself; what he should contribute he can determine through his insight into the situation as a whole.
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The God of the New Testament is not less holy that the God of the Old Testament, but more holy. The interval between the creature and Him is not diminished but made absolute; the unworthiness of the profane in contrast to Him is not extenuated but enhanced. That God none the less admits access to Himself and intimacy with Himself is not a mere matter of course; it is a grace beyond our power to apprehend, a prodigious paradox.
Rudolf Steiner, fully Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner
I met a hydrocephalic child who was different in many respects from the rest of his family. Why was he a hydrocephalic? Because the council of higher powers together with Lucifer had decreed that that particular individuality should be born in a particular place and his parents were the best available for him. But he was unable to work rightly into the ancestral line so he could create what would result in the appropriate substance in order that his head might harden in the right way. Only during his lifetime would he be able to adapt his brain to its general structure. Such an individuality did not find the right conditions enabling him to influence his ancestry so that his head could harden in the appropriate way.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor Why talk of anything else?
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. Love embraces all.
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Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Nearness to God is common to us all, because we're all created and sustained by God, but only the authentically noble possess and live that nearness that's a constant up-swelling passion of love.
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Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, my eyes are clear. Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed.
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Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
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Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Listen to the story told by the reed, of being separated. Since I was cut from the reed-bed, I have made this crying sound. Anyone apart from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a source longs to go back. At any gathering I am there, mingling in the laughing and grieving, a friend to each, but few will hear the secrets hidden within the notes. No ears for that. Body flowing out of spirit, spirit up from body: no concealing that mixing. But it's not given us to see the soul. The reed flute is fire, not wind. Be that empty. Hear the love-fire tangled in the reed notes, as bewilderment melts into wine. The reed is a friend to all who want the fabric torn and drawn away. The reed is hurt and salve combining. Intimacy and longing for intimacy, one song. A disastrous surrender, and a fine love, together.
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Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
We are all the same. Listen to the reeds as they sway apart; hear them speak of lost friends. At birth, you were cut from your bed, crying and grasping in separation. Everyone listens, knowing your song. You yearn for others who know your name and the words to your lament. We are all the same, all the same, Longing to find our way back; back to the one, back to the only one.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
O BELOVED. In truth everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved, and our seeking is His seeking and our words are His words... We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him. Sitting by His side, we ask: 'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'