"Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking."

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Rumi

#Way Quotes #Self Discovery Quotes

“Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.”
“She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.”
“I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.”
“To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.”
“{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or not. There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty. When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there. There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.”
“That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.”
“We sometimes confuse sin with sinner, and we condemn too quickly and with too little compassion. We know from modern revelation that â€˜the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.â€™ We cannot gauge the worth of another soul any more than we can measure the span of the universe.”
“Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised”

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