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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
— Daniel Dennett
Everything is conversation.
— Coleman Barks
There's some sort of exchange that goes on between human beings that is one of the highest things we do.
— Coleman Barks
I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats - Christian
— Richelle Mead
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
— Groucho Marx
Do not offend one power to attain the favor of another.
— Megan Whalen Turner
These poems need to be released from their cages,
— Coleman Barks
The mind is what sleeps. What recognizes itself as God is awake.
— Lalla Translation By Coleman Barks
Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.
— Coleman Barks
Mark had a smile that could break your heart. It seemed to take up his whole face and brighten his eyes, firing the blue and gold from inside.
— Cassandra Clare
There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly? — Erin Hanson
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly? — Erin Hanson
A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?" His answer: "The radiant one inside me has never said a word.
— Coleman Barks
I have no name for what circles so perfectly.
— Coleman Barks
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity ... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral ...
— Coleman Barks
If you teach three university courses a day, you need something to turn your mind off.
— Coleman Barks
Fold within fold, the beloved
drowns in its own being. This world
is drenched with that drowning. — Coleman Barks
drowns in its own being. This world
is drenched with that drowning. — Coleman Barks
I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
— Nawal El Saadawi
The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.
— Dave Brubeck
I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.
— Robert Irwin
The only offering you can make to God is your increasing awareness.
— Lalla Translation By Coleman Barks
It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.
— Coleman Barks
Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.
— Roger Martin
Every man, deep down, knows he'a a piece of shit.
— Valerie Solanas