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“The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Views from the Real World

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
― Marcel Proust

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

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung

“With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no particular reason, Naoko would gaze into my eyes as if searching for something. Each time I was filled with odd sensations of lonliness and inadequecy.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle”
― Rumi

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
― Rumi

“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.”
― Albert Camus

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
― Zhuangzi, The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu

“The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
― Walter Benjamin

“I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell”
― Omar Khayyam

“I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
― Rumi

“He walks among us, but is not with us.”
― J.J. Abrams

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“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

“One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“I have no news
of my coming
or passing away--
the whole thing
happened quicker
than a breath;
ask no questions
of the moth.”
― Farid al-Din Attar (عطار)

“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”
― Hafiz

“This place where you are right now God has circled on a map for you.”
― Hafiz

“سر تخت شاهان بپیچد سه کار
نخستین ز بیدادگر شهریار
دگر آنکه بی مایه را برکشد
ز مرد هنرمند برتر کشد
سه دیگر که با گنج خویشی کند
به دینار کوشد که بیشی کند”
― ابوالقاسم فردوسی / Abolghasem Ferdowsi

“For I have learned that every heart will get
What it prays for
Most.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez, The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz

“Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw”
― Farid ud-Din Attar

“...Rise up and play
Those liquid notes that steal men's hearts away.”
― Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār, The Conference of the Birds