Truth – She has confused all the learned of Islam,
Everyone who has studied the psalms,
Every Jewish Rabbi,
Every Christian Priest.
Ibn El-Arabi
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Truth – She has confused all the learned of Islam,
Everyone who has studied the psalms,
Every Jewish Rabbi,
Every Christian Priest.
Ibn El-Arabi
Often rebuked, yet always back returning
To those first feelings that were born with me,
And leaving busy chase of wealth and learning
For idle dreams of things that cannot be:
Today, I will seek not the shadowy region;
Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear;
And visions rising, legion after legion,
Bring the unreal world too strangely near.
I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,
And not in paths of high morality,
And not among the half-distinguished faces,
The clouded forms of long-past history.
I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading:
It vexes me to choose another guide:
Where the gray flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side.
What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
More glory and more grief than I can tell:
The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling;
Can center both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.
Emily Bronte
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus
A good soldier is never agressive;
A good fighter is never angry.
The best way of conquering an enemy
Is to win him over by not antagonizing him.
The best way of employing a man
Is to serve under him.
This is called the virtue of non-striving!
This is called using the abilities of men!
This is called being wedded to Heaven as of old!
Lao Tzu
I will die in Paris, on a rainy day,
on some day I can already remember.
I will die in Paris – and I don’t step aside –
perhaps on a Thursday, as today is Thursday, in autumn.
It will be a Thursday, because today, Thursday, setting down
these lines, I have put my upper arm bones on
wrong, and never so much as today have I found myself
with all the road ahead of me, alone.
Cesar Vallejo is dead. Everyone beat him,
although he never does anything to them;
they beat him hard with a stick and hard also
with a rope. These are the witnesses:
the Thursdays, and the bones of my arms,
the solitude, and the rain, and the roads . . .
Cesar Vallejo
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
William James
Gamble everything for love,
if you’re a true human being.
If not, leave
this gathering.
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
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity — another man’s I mean.
Mark Twain
All your days are like a drunken stupor,
but the flowing years never for a moment stand still.
When you’re buried under the weed-grown turf,
how black will be the moon that shines down there!
When bones and flesh have rotted and scattered
and the spirit is fading away,
though you had jaws that would bite through iron,
how could you intone your Taoist scriptures?
Han-Shan
People will believe anything if you whisper it.
Anonymous