How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you’re always flying off to blue perfection? – Rumi Category: Rumi
Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses. – Rumi Category: Rumi
Why should I stay at the bottom of a well when a strong rope is in my hand? – Rumi, as interpreted by Jonathan Star Category: Rumi
And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. – Rumi Category: Rumi
Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Hmmm
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. – Khalil Gibran Category: Truth
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery Category: Flight, Flying