“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”
“I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”
― Mother Teresa
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
— André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869- 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.
Quote from: Les faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters] (1925)
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi, Volume X: The Last Phase, Part II (Ahmedabad: Navajivan, 1958), page 552
Manic Screaming
We should make all spiritual talk
Simple today:
God is trying to sell you something,
But you don’t want to buy.
That is what your suffering is:
Your fantastic haggling,
Your manic screaming over the price!
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Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī (also known as Hafiz, was a fourteenth century Persian poet.
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Poem from I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky
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I just found this quote and picture on KSFINBLOG: Global Analyst. I love it and hope you do to! Thank you for posting it KS.
Do you think I know what I’m doing?
That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself?
As much as a pen knows what it’s writing.
Or the ball can guess where it’s going next.
— Rumi
From Open Secret: Versions of Rumi by John Moyne
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Jelaluddin Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. (Biographical information and picture are from Wikepedia)
Come, come whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving — it doesn’t matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times,
Come, come again, come.
— Rumi
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Jelaluddin Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. (Biographical information and picture are from Wikepedia)
“I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
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