When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I’ll meet you there.
- Topic: Solitude
- Location: Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Rumi
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.
At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.
Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.
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More on Solitude
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.
Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.