"Feel the delight of walking in the..." - Quote by Rumi

“Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.”

“The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.”

“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.”

“Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.”

“The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.”

“To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.”

“The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.”

“I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.”

“Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.”