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If God said,” Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,” there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, not any act, I would not bow to.
How many times have I promised, yet every time I failed to keep my word. But disregard this according to Thy Grace.
He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury; that sits above the clouds, in a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave indifference hears the rolling thunders grumble and burst under his feet.
Truly, I see he that will but stand to the truth, it will carry him out.
We are too careless and too self-absorbed to understand one another. Whoever has seen a masked ball where people dance together in friendliness, then separate and never see each other again, will have some idea of the world we live in.
In the modesty of fearful duty
I read as much as from the rattling tongue
Of saucy and audacious eloquence.
Observe yourself as your greatest enemy would do… so shall you be your greatest friend.
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversations but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
Strange is it that our bloods,
Of colour, weight, and heat, pour’d all together,
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
In differences so mighty.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
What greater pleasure is there than to find myself the one thing that I ought to be, and the whole thing that I ought to be?
Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
It was but imagination, yet imagination had all the terrors of reality; nay, it was worse, for the reality would have come and gone, and there an end, but in imagination it was always coming, and never went away.
The conscious self is that which remains constant in its pure universality through all particular, changeful experiences.
The Kingdom of Heaven lies in the space between two thoughts.
God never makes us sensible of our weaknesses, except to give us of his strength.
For this is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love.
We have in us the power to transcend the bounds of our narrow individuality, and to find ourselves in that which seems to lie beyond us.
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the entire Law. All the rest is commentary.
