Jalaluddin Rumi
"How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire."
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"How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor... Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?"
Jalaluddin Rumi
"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free."
Jalaluddin Rumi
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