"Who says the eternal being does not..." - Quote by Rumi
Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.
More by Rumi
“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
“Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.”
“I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.”
More on Perception
“He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.”
“The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them.”
“Action is thought tempered by illusion.”
More on Truth
“It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.”
“A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.”
“The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.”