Across time, place, and culture, Rumi’s poems articulate what it feels like to be alive, and they help us understand our own search for love and the ecstatic in the coil of daily life. – Lee Briccetti Category: Rumi
Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, Here I am! – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks Category: Rumi
[Rumi’s words are an] expression of praise and grief and gratitude and play. – Coleman Barks Category: Rumi
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. – Baltasar Gracian Category: alone
Ive been to war, and its not easy to kill. Its bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. – Oliver Stone Category: Politics
Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: Ive done it from my youth. – George Crabbe Category: Habits