Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable;
“All people, all possible permutations of good, evil, thought, passion. The lamps are different, But the Light is the same.”
― The Rumi Collection
― The Rumi Collection
“Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.”
― The Rumi Collection
― The Rumi Collection
“Life's waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don't run from it.”
― The Rumi Collection
― The Rumi Collection
“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.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Make it your habit to behold the Light without the glass, so that when the glass is shattered you may not be left blind.”
― The Rumi Collection
― The Rumi Collection
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