“I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.”
― The Essential Rumi
― The Essential Rumi
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― The Essential Rumi
― The Essential Rumi
“When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”
― The Essential Rumi
― The Essential Rumi
“Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands,
or your own genuine solitude?
Freedom, or power over an entire nation?
A little while alone in your room
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given you.”
― The Essential Rumi
or your own genuine solitude?
Freedom, or power over an entire nation?
A little while alone in your room
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given you.”
― The Essential Rumi
“Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!”
― The Essential Rumi
― The Essential Rumi
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