Inspirational Quotes
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." African Proverb
Rumi Quotes
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths!
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
Don't sigh, don't yawn. Seek passion, passion, passion!
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~ Rumi ~
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths!
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
Don't sigh, don't yawn. Seek passion, passion, passion!
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~ Rumi ~
Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.
I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!
On Auguste Rodin... He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay a certain renunciation of Life, but in just this renunciation lay his triumph, for Life entered into his work.
Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. Your solitude will be a support and a home for you
Space for the Spirit to breathe.
I want to unfold, / I don't want to stay folded anywhere, / Because where I am folded, / There I am a lie...
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.
I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!
On Auguste Rodin... He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay a certain renunciation of Life, but in just this renunciation lay his triumph, for Life entered into his work.
Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. Your solitude will be a support and a home for you
Space for the Spirit to breathe.
I want to unfold, / I don't want to stay folded anywhere, / Because where I am folded, / There I am a lie...
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
