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  • #1
    Jonathan Franzen
    “How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
    Jonathan Franzen

  • #2
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    Rumi

  • #3
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    Rumi

  • #4
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The minute I heard my first love story,
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    how blind that was.
    Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
    They're in each other all along.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

  • #5
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
    Rumi

  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be empty of worrying.
    Think of who created thought!

    Why do you stay in prison
    When the door is so wide open?”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #8
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
    Rumi

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Respond to every call
    that excites your spirit.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “For ages you have come and gone
    courting this delusion.
    For ages you have run from the pain
    and forfeited the ecstasy.
    So come, return to the root of the root
    of your own soul.

    Although you appear in earthly form
    Your essence is pure Consciousness.
    You are the fearless guardian
    of Divine Light.
    So come, return to the root of the root
    of your own soul.

    When you lose all sense of self
    the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.
    Lose yourself completely,
    Return to the root of the root
    of your own soul.

    You descended from Adam, by the pure Word of God,
    but you turned your sight
    to the empty show of this world.
    Alas, how can you be satisfied with so little?
    So come, return to the root of the root
    of your own soul.

    Why are you so enchanted by this world
    when a mine of gold lies within you?
    Open your eyes and come ---
    Return to the root of the root
    of your own soul.

    You were born from the rays of God's Majesty
    when the stars were in their perfect place.
    How long will you suffer from the blows
    of a nonexistent hand?
    So come, return to the root of the root
    of your own soul.

    You are a ruby encased in granite.
    How long will you decieve Us with this outer show?
    O friend, We can see the truth in your eyes!
    So come, return to the root of the root
    of your own soul.

    After one moment with that glorious Friend
    you became loving, radiant, and ecstatic.
    Your eyes were sweet and full of fire.
    Come, return to the root of the root
    of your own soul.

    Shams-e Tabriz, the King of the Tavern
    has handed you an eternal cup,
    And God in all His glory is pouring the wine.
    So come! Drink!
    Return to the root of the root
    of your own soul.

    Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That.
    Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
    The road that leads to the City is endless;
    Go without head and feet
    and you'll already be there.
    What else could you be? - you are That.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
    Rumi

  • #12
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.

    The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: hope

  • #13
    Gautama Buddha
    “Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.”
    Siddhartha Gautama

  • #14
    Gautama Buddha
    “Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”
    Gautama Buddha

  • #15
    Gautama Buddha
    “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”
    Siddhārtha Gautama

  • #16
    Gautama Buddha
    “Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”
    Buddha

  • #17
    Gautama Buddha
    “As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all. ”
    Buddha

  • #18
    Gautama Buddha
    “As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.”
    Siddhārtha Gautama

  • #19
    Gautama Buddha
    “If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?”
    Buddha

  • #20
    Gautama Buddha
    “A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”
    Buddha

  • #21
    Gautama Buddha
    “With our thoughts we make the world.”
    Buddha

  • #22
    Gautama Buddha
    “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
    Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha

  • #23
    Gautama Buddha
    “In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”
    Buddha

  • #24
    J. Krishnamurti
    “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
    J. Krishnamurti

  • #25
    J. Krishnamurti
    “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
    J. Krishnamurti

  • #26
    J. Krishnamurti
    “It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
    Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

  • #27
    When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European,
    “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
    Jiddu Krishnamurti

  • #28
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #29
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #30
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower



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