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    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
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “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
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world
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  • #4
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization
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  • #5
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Knock, And He'll open the door
    Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
    Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
    Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
    ― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi
    tags: islam, religion, spirituality
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
    ― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
    tags: wisdom
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  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-singing
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness
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  • #17
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, religion
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  • #18
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
    THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
    FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
    WAS MUSIC”
    ― kurt vonnegut
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
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    Dorothy Parker
    “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: god, humor, money
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water
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  • #22
    John Lennon
    “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: god, organized-religion, religion, spirituality
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  • #23
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: spirituality
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  • #24
    Carl Sagan
    “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: metaphysics, philosophy, science, sense-of-wonder, spirituality
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    Anaïs Nin
    “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: knowledge, mystery, sense-of-wonder, spirituality
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  • #26
    Brian L. Weiss
    “Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.”
    ― Brian Weiss, Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love
    tags: relationships, spirituality
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  • #27
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
    ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    tags: spirituality
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  • #28
    Albert Einstein
    “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: god, religion, spirit, spirituality
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  • #29
    Sarah Dessen
    “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: just-litsen, sarah-dessen, time
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  • #30
    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
    ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time
    5070 likes



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