"The universe and the light of the stars come through me."

-- Rumi

#Spiritual Quotes #Stars Quotes #Light Quotes

“If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.”
“A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.”
“My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.”
“At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that poetry has some reach into reality itself, or you have to go silent.”

Source : Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.161, Copper Canyon Press
“Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world.”

Source : "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 55), December 1994.
“'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.”
“It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the hidden life is by means of symbol; if it were not for the recurring evidence of murder â€“ the disemboweled rabbits, the headless flickers, the torn squirrels â€“ we should forever imagine our cats to be simple pets whose highest ambition is to sleep in the best soft chair, whose worst crime is to sharpen their claws on carpeting.”
“I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.”

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