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“Listen to presences inside poems.
Let them take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
and never leave the premises.”
― A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
Let them take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
and never leave the premises.”
― A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
“هل تعرف؟" قلت بهدوء "أحيانًا أتعجب من الناس وتصرفاتهم. مثلاً والدة سامي، وحتى أخته، كانوا يعلمون جيدًا بما يعانيه سامي من مرضه، ومع ذلك، سمحوا لأنفسهم بالاستمرار في هذا الارتباط . ألا يفكرون في مشاعر الشخص الآخر الذي يدخل هذه العلاقة؟ ألا يهمهم كيف أن حياة هذا الشريك قد تتغير جذريًا بسبب ابنهم؟ أتساءل أحيانًا كم يمكن أن يكون الناس أنانيين بهذا الشكل؟”
― كل الأشياء التي لم أستطع قولها
― كل الأشياء التي لم أستطع قولها
“A human being is essentially
a spirit-eye.
Whatever you really see,
you are that.”
― A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
a spirit-eye.
Whatever you really see,
you are that.”
― A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
“When you’re young, you do so many things hoping to be noticed. The way you dress or stand, the music played loud enough to catch the attention of another person who might know a song, too. And then there are things you do as you step out into the world, the real world full of strange adults, testing out what it means to be generous or thoughtful. In that instant, before every memory was placed along some narrative arc, before the act of remembering took on a desperate air, I simply felt lucky enough to witness something so effortlessly kind - to see my friend do something that was good.”
― Stay True
― Stay True
“Isolation has carved me in its image and likeness. The presence of another person – of any person whatsoever – instantly slows down my thinking, and while for a normal man contact with others is a stimulus to spoken expression and wit, for me it is a counterstimulus, if this compound word be linguistically permissible. When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Yes, talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial, and in them intelligence gleams like an image in a mirror.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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