Great Quotes #138: Jalaluddin Rumi (continued)

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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

Jalaluddin Rumi


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I cannot sleep in your presence
In your absence, tears prevent me
you watch me my beloved
on each sleepiness night and
Only you see the difference.

As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

I would love to kiss you.
The price of kissing is your life.

Knowledge that is acquired
is not like this. Those who have it worry if
audiences like it or not.
It's a bait for popularity.
Disputational knowing wants customers.
It has no soul...
The only real customer is God.
Chew quietly
your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay
playfully childish.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
― Carl Gustav Jung

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

With passion pray.

With passion make love.

With passion eat and drink and dance and play.

Why look like a dead fish

in this ocean of God?

On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.

Bitter your acts, bitter am I,
Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,
Pleasant and gentle, so you are,
Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
– Jon Kabat-Zinn

thank you so much, you are unconditionaly invited to read my poetry...in the silence of the mind i am that love in thy heart, u know love ;) that i am you :*

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.