Руми. 12 коротких и мудрых мыслей на английском языке (часть 3)
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you make.
Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.
Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.