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Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable;
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Tom Stoppard
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.”
Jalaluddin Rumi, The Rumi Collection

Joseph Campbell
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“All people, all possible permutations of good, evil, thought, passion. The lamps are different, But the Light is the same.”
Jalaluddin Rumi, The Rumi Collection

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.”
Jalaluddin Rumi, The Rumi Collection

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