"Silence is the sea, and speech is..." - Quote by Rumi
Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.
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“Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!”
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
“And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow.”
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“And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.”
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
“All is known in the sacredness of silence.”
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“We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.”
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