"What the sayer of praise is really..." - Quote by Rumi
What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed.
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“I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.”
“Love is the water of life, jump into this water.”
“Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?”
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“My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.”
“The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.”
“In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.”
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“In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.”
“The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.”
“Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.”