from The Soul of Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks

The One Thing You Must Do

There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there's nothing to worry about, but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life.

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"Everybody has a secret garden," says a fourth. "We each appear as an image. If I revealed myself as I am, no one would believe me. So I keep my thoughts to myself. I don't want to give my key away."
(from An Intimate History of Humanity)

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From "Free Will Astrology" by Rob Brezny

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Mahatma Gandhi said that "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." You are maybe as close as you've ever been to achieving that mythical state. I'm tempted to say that there's a cosmic conspiracy working to unify elements of your life that ( Read more... )