Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran • The Prophet ; ebook
The Muslim poet Rumi described this yielding as dissolving like sugar.
William Bloom • The Power of Modern Spirituality
QUIETNESS
Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
You're covered with thick cloud.
Slide out the side. Die,
and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign
that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running
from silence.
The spee
... See more“Entertainment for man, but not for his beast. Enter ye that have leisure and a quiet mind, who earnestly seek the right road.” He is perhaps the sanest man and has the fewest crotchets of any I chance to know; the same yesterday and tomorrow.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Do not grieve over past joys, be sure they will reappear in another form. A child’s joy is in milk and nursing but once weaned, it finds new joy in bread and honey. Joy appears in many different forms it moves from place to place. It may suddenly show in the falling rain or in the rose bed; it comes now as water, now as beauty, or as nourishing bre
... See moreRumi, Marayam H Mafi, • Rumi's Little Book of Life
do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you
-rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. —Rumi,