Adages & Proverbs

Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.”
― Rumi

“you are a volume in the divine book
a mirror to the power that created the universe
whatever you want, ask it of yourself
whatever you’re looking for can only be found
inside of you”
― Rumi, The Poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi

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“The astrolabe of the mysteries of God is love”.–Rumi

“God, if I worship Thee in fear of hell, burn me in hell. And if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not Thine everlasting Beauty.”–Rabi’a (A Sufi saint.)

To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

Thanks. When I was a young man, Blake woke me from my “dogmatic slumber”.

“We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.”–Pascal

There are three direct instructions here.
Burn me in Hell!
Exclude me from paradise!
and withold not thine beauty!

It does not take many words to speak the truth.–Chief Joseph

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

So true…

LOVE this!!!

Simplicity–
“A simple heart will love all that is most precious on earth, husband or wife, parent or child, brother or friend, without marring its singleness. . .”-N. Grou

Grou is simply saying that you can love a person without trying to change him/her. , that you should respect the integrity of another.

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment;
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.”–Rumi

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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There is as much within that little space within the heart as there is in the whole world outside.
Heaven, earth, fire, wind, sun, moon, lightening, stars: whatever is and whatever is not, everything is there.
Chandogya Upanishad

“But they are useless. They can only give you answers.”
— Pablo Picasso

“Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.”. —Wm Blake

“Goodness needeth not to enter into the soul, for it is there already, only it is unperceived.”–Theologia Germanica