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“Put your thoughts to sleep,
do not let them cast a shadow
over the moon of your heart.
Let go of thinking.”
― Rumi

“You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door
is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.”
― Rumi

“Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love”
― Jalaludin Rumi

“Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!”
― Rumi, Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey

“Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.”
― Rumi

“LIBERTY!
FREEDOM!
DEMOCRACY!
True anyhow no matter how many
Liars use those words.”
― Langston Hughes

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
― Rumi

“If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn't walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
― Osho

“You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!”
― Rumi

“When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.”
― Rumi

“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Whenever we manage to love without expectations,
calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”
― Rumi

“The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.”
― Rumi

“Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.”
― Rumi

“I'm in love!
Your advice, what are they?
Love has poisoned me!
Your remedies, what are they?
I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!"
But if my heart that has gone mad!
Those strings on my feet
What is the point?”
― Rumi

“There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping.

I wonder myself.”
― Rumi

“Now be silent.
Let the One who creates the words speak.
He made the door.
He made the lock.
He also made the key.”
― Rumi

“Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.”
― bell hooks

“To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”
― bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart...”
― Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

“WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.”
― Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

“There is a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on earth that the best way to live is to try to avoid pain and just try to get comfortable. You see this even in insects and animals and birds. All of us are the same. A much more interesting, kind and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop our curiosity, not caring whether the object of our curiosity is bitter or sweet. To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is, how we tick and how our world ticks, how the whole thing just is. If we are committed to comfort at any cost, as soon as we come up against the least edge of pain, we’re going to run; we’ll never know what’s beyond that particular barrier or wall or fearful thing.”
― Pema Chödrön

“Tengo la horrible sensación de que pasa el tiempo y no hago nada y nada acontece, y nada me conmueve hasta la raíz”
― Mario Benedetti, La tregua