Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. “Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. He was consumed there and then, and only he understood the nature of the light.” When he approached the candle he didn't stop like his friends had done, but flew straight into the flame. He, too, came back with an observation: The light was hot. The scouting moth circled the candle several times and came back with a description: The light was bright.
Puzzled by the nature of the light, they sent one of their members to go and check on it. “One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. “That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched.” Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.” Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside us this very moment. “Love exists within each of us from the moment we are born and waits to be discovered from then on.” “Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.” For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.” Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. “Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.” “Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.” Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.”
“I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.” And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. And a lover is a soul of fire! “The universe turns differently when fire loves water.” Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. “If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.” Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.” Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission†with “weaknessâ€, whereas it is anything but. “One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. “Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.” Being able to let go, at times, is the most beautiful of all!” The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the jobs we cannot pursue and the people who no longer love us. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. “What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities will lose their glamour.” Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. “Cities are erected on spiritual columns. “If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. “The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.” “Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person.” Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.” “Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Not being on the watch for the faults of others.†(p. What we need is sincere self-examination. (…) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us.