Ivan Carmona

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

“Today, the monks are perhaps the last remaining people who can understand the words of Saint Francis of Assisi’s “Canticle of Brother Sun”:      Praise be to you, my Lord,      for our sister Corporeal Death,      from whom no living man can escape.      Sorrowful are they who die in mortal sin;      happy are they whom she finds living according to your will,      for the second death can do them no harm.”
― Nicolas Diat, A Time To Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life