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“The Sufi is interested in neither this world nor the next, in neither heaven nor hell. He will pay any price to reach Reality in this life. The price is that “everything has to go,” and like any mental belief, the values of good and bad can be a limitation. Even the desire to renounce must be left behind. One Sufi poet wrote: “On the hat of poverty three renouncements are inscribed: ‘Quit this world, quit the next world, quit quitting.”
― Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology
― Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology
“I want to stay on the back porch while the world tilts toward sleep, until what I love misses me, and calls me in.”
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“as if nothing had happened—
as if everything mattered—What else could I do?”
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as if everything mattered—What else could I do?”
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“What else can I say?
You don't know your own worth.
Do not sell yourself at a ridiculous price,
You who are so valuable in God's eyes.
(Rumi)”
― The Circle of Love
You don't know your own worth.
Do not sell yourself at a ridiculous price,
You who are so valuable in God's eyes.
(Rumi)”
― The Circle of Love
“In another universe, I meet my father when he is a child.
We play catch in the woods and as we play he tells me he isn't allowed to cry but sometimes the world hurts him and he doesn't know what to do with all that pain.
So I give him the shoulder he needs to cry on.
And he does. He does until the tears are done.
Afterwards, I buy him ice cream and I listen to his laugh, the glowing warm laugh of a child who knows he is safe.
I wish someone could have done that for him.
Been a kind, safe place for the child he used to be.
Would it have made a difference?
Would it have made a difference?”
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We play catch in the woods and as we play he tells me he isn't allowed to cry but sometimes the world hurts him and he doesn't know what to do with all that pain.
So I give him the shoulder he needs to cry on.
And he does. He does until the tears are done.
Afterwards, I buy him ice cream and I listen to his laugh, the glowing warm laugh of a child who knows he is safe.
I wish someone could have done that for him.
Been a kind, safe place for the child he used to be.
Would it have made a difference?
Would it have made a difference?”
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