Quote by CS Lewis Download Open image ““Why should quiet ruminants as you and I have been born in such a ghastly age? ”” — CS Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The poet Rumi says: "How long will we fill our pockets like children with dirt and stones? Let the world go. Holding it, we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Rumi tells us that moment we accept what troubles we’ve been given, the door will open.” — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“Be silent, and sit down, for you are drunk, and this is the edge of the roof. —RUMI” — Robert V.S. Redick Copy Share Image
“Rumi speaks often of the power of silence to take us to what we are looking for. In one poem he says: We search… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“This is why the gypsies keep to themselves...no one else has the sense to age properly. You could drive a man to drink...I think… — Jim Galford Copy Share Image
“Finding out how the rest of the world lives is a normal part of rumschpringe. I didn't think it was up to my father-or… — Mary Ellis Copy Share Image
“Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side… — Ana Paula Maia Copy Share Image
“Mother: “Rumi wrote that…roughly…the only thing that will be with you to your grave is your work. Only your work will speak for you… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Well, all I can say is that sheep are content, day after day in the field munching, minding their own business, not hurting anyone,… — Mark Kloss Copy Share Image
“and I lived on rum, I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me; and if I’m not to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis. — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
“Truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is".” — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket… — CS Lewis Copy Share
“The vocabulary of flattery and insult is continually enlarged at the expense of the vocabulary of definition. As old horses go to the knacker's yard, or old ships to the breakers, so words in their last decay go to swell the enormous list of synonyms for good and bad. And as long as most people are more anxious to express… — CS Lewis Copy Share
When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in… — CS Lewis Copy Share
I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel us into unity, by persecution even and hardship. Satan is without a doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God. For all, either willingly or unwillingly, do the will of God: Judas and Satan as tools… — CS Lewis Copy Share
When you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
“if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike” — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
