"Through Love all that is bitter will..." - Quote by Rumi
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
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“This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.”
“Patience is the key to joy.”
“Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.”
More on Love
“Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.”
“The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.”
“If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.”
More on Transformation
“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.”
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
“The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.”