Quotes

[Turtle]

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

[Turtle]

When the cat's away the mice will play, but when the cat gets home it eats those mice.
~ Beatrix Teranna Goodwon ~

[Thunderbird]

Excuses the multiple quotes. I think Sufi wisdom uniqueness needs to be read together for context of how they relate……+

&===-…. .
Rumi Quotes

"Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

"I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it."

"All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."

"Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river."

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there."





"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home."

"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness."

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep."

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."


“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”

“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust”

“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

[Turtle]

Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness of foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures intended to catch the eye, and by looks elaborately formed as evidences of importance. ~ Samuel Johnson

[Turtle]

In all territories of thought which science or philosophy can lay claim to, including those upon which literature has also a proper claim, no one who has something original or important to say will willingly run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief. ~ Peter Medawar

[Boerseun]

"If you live long enough, something will kill you."
- Frank Harvie

[pamela]

food for thought

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. A.E.

[Turtle]

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis. ~ Sigmund Freud

[pamela]

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. c. jung

Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other. c. jung

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by pamela

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. c. jung

A good one for the Drug War here's another:-
"When society turns the sick into criminals, then we're all repeat offenders" - Recidivist3
and
"For every complex problem there is an easy answer, and it is wrong." - H.L. Mencken