Rumi

Although the road is never ending, take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance…on the path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

The pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.

How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget…

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.

I was born upon thy bank, river, my blood flows in thy stream, and thou meanderest forever. At the bottom of my dream.

No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

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