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Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Into this new love, die your way begins on the other side become the sky take an axe to the prison wall, escape walk out like someone suddenly born into color do it now
Land |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
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.
Light | Little | Means | Soul | Space | Spirit | Wants | Will | Old |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not.
Memory |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring-water or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
Will |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
The sky was lit by the splendor of the moon So powerful I fell to the ground Your love has made me sure I am ready to forsake this worldly life and surrender to the magnificence of your Being.
All is not gold that glitters. (A person or thing may not be as good,valuable,etc., as he or it first appears; appearances can be deceptive)
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Enough |
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
Saint Anthony of Padua or Anthony of Lisbon, born Fernando Martins de Bulhões NULL
The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.
Contemplation | Heart | Mercy | Providence | Quiet | Contemplation |
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
We had an inspection today of the brigade. The Twenty-third was pronounced the crack regiment in appearance, ... [but] I could see only six to ten in a company of the old men. They all smiled as I rode by. But as I passed away I couldn’t help dropping a few natural tears. I felt as I did when I saw them mustered in at Camp Chase.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
Desire | Error | Evil | Heart | Law | Pity | Poverty | Shame | Sin | Will |
Saint John of the Cross, born Juan de Yepes Álvarez NULL
God is awakened in the soul. God breathes in the soul. Wisdom is more active than all active things. Oh, how happy is this soul that is ever conscious of God resting and reposing within its breast!
Care | God | Journey | Love | Means | Order | Respect | Rule | Soul | Spirit | Time | Respect | God |
Saint John of the Cross, born Juan de Yepes Álvarez NULL
All these sensory means and exercises of the faculties must be left behind and in silence so that God Himself may affect the divine union of the soul. As a result one has to follow this method of disencumbering, emptying, and depriving the faculties of their natural rights and operations to make room for the inflow and illumination of the supernatural. If a person does not turn his eyes from his natural capacity, he will not attain to so lofty a communication; rather he will hinder it. If it is true that the soul must journey by knowing God through what He is not, rather than through what He is, it must journey, insofar as possible, by way of the denial and rejection of natural and supernatural apprehensions. This is our task now with the memory. We must draw it away from its natural props and capacities and raise it above itself (above all distinct knowledge and apprehensible possession) to supreme hope in the incomprehensible God. The annihilation of the memory in regard to all forms (including the five senses) is an absolute requirement for union with God. This union cannot be wrought without a complete separation of the memory from all forms that are not God. In great forgetfulness it is absorbed in a supreme good. Once he has the habit of union he no longer experiences these lapses of memory in matters concerning his moral and natural life. All the operations of the memory and other faculties in this state are divine.
Faith | Love | Progress | Purity | Reason | Sense | Simplicity | Soul | Will | Intellect |
Saint John of the Cross, born Juan de Yepes Álvarez NULL
In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.