"It may be that the satisfaction I..." - Quote by Rumi
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
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“How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.”
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.”
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“Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
“Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.”
“Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.”
More on Self Discovery
“Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.”
“Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.”
“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”