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Doe Quotes by Rumi
- On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
- Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If…
- Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find…
- All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than…
- What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food…
- If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.
- Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
- I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined…
- What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.
- The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!
- The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?
- Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a…
- We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not…
- Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating…
- I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes He does, just…
- Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the…
- Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
- A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never…
- I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.†She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.
- This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
More Doe Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz
- Jesus Christ was willing to admit every good man to the family of God. It is not the man who believes a… — Swami Vivekananda
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle