My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
RumiRead
Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
Interpretation
This quote encourages us to pursue deep understanding and engage fully with our life's journey.
Rumi emphasizes the importance of seeking wisdom that can resolve our inner conflicts and provide clarity in our lives. The quote also suggests that true fulfillment comes from following a path that requires our complete commitment and passion, indicating that our most significant growth and insights often come from intense dedication to our pursuits.
In practice
During a motivational speech about pursuing passions.
My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, _x000D_ ...I burn each second of my life to Love _x000D_ Each second of my life burns out in Love _x000D_ In each leaping second Love lives afresh.
Lovers have heartaches _x000D_ That can't be cured by drugs _x000D_ Or sleep, _x000D_ Or games, _x000D_ But only by seeing their beloved.
Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God _x000D_ manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of _x000D_ the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and _x000D_ the leaf.
Come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me
One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.
It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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