To change, a person must face the dragon of his appetites with another dragon, the life-energy of the soul. – Rumi Category: Rumi
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. – Rumi Category: Rumi
I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled. – Rumi Category: Rumi
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Perspective
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. – Emily Dickinson Category: Hope
There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free. – Gita Bellin Category: Freedom