“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.”
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“Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall and falling,
they're given wings.”
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How do they learn it?
They fall and falling,
they're given wings.”
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“Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.”
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― مثنوی معنوی
“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.”
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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.”
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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
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