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Do not grieve over past joys, be sure they will reappear in another form. A child’s joy is in milk and nursing but once weaned, it finds new joy in bread and honey. Joy appears in many different forms it moves from place to place. It may
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“Your mind can fly to great heights but your parrot-nature keeps pecking on the ground collecting knowledge that burdens the soul. Unlearn everything and embrace madness! Give your profit to the poor, forsake security, live dangerously, insult those who praise you, drink poison, and spill the water of life. Forget reputation, become a disgrace. I was prudent all my life from now on, I embrace madness.”
― Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
― Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
“Love is my religion! Living only in the mind and body is a disgrace for me. Love has swept the dust from my soul and now in the clear sky my spirit moon is shinning. For ages I have been beating the drum of love for you to the tune of, My life depends on my dying.”
― Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
― Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
“While rituals helped man cope with the many material challenges of the world, they did not offer man any spiritual explanations about life. For that stories were needed. And so, during yagnas, and between them, bards were called to entertain and enlighten the priests and their patrons with tales. In due course, the tales were given more value than the yagna. In fact, by 500 CE, the yagna was almost abandoned. Sacred tales of gods, kings and sages became the foundation of Hindu thought.”
― Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata
― Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata
“Proud scholar step down from your summit fall in love and become a fool! Become humble like dust walk with everyone good and bad, young and old so one day you may become a king.”
― Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
― Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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