"You think the shadow is the substance...." - Quote by Rumi

“There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.”

“Revile those who flatter you.”

“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.”

“For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.”

“You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.”

“Action is thought tempered by illusion.”

“Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.”

“If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.”

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”