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@rookie54 said
Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.
~ Rumi

Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
~ Rumi

@hakima said
Dammit Rumi.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

~ Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

Discard all you have acquired
As being no better than a bed,
Spread for you when you were sick.
Only when you have abandoned
All perceptions, And rid yourself of dualistic concepts
Such as “ignorance” and “enlightenment,”
Will you be worthy to be called a Buddha.

- Huang-po

Maybe a liqueur for the Rumi-minded to savor when the moment seems right. No twirling required.

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The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person - without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.
-Osho

@caesar-salad said
Maybe a liqueur for the Rumi-minded to savor when the moment seems right. No twirling required.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJf_zoIWnDA

The original mind is without distinctions;
When a sudden flash of thought
Occurs in your mind,
Even if a Buddha arises,
Cut him off.
Many people are afraid
To empty their minds
Lest they plunge into the void.
They do not know
That their own mind is the void.

- Huang-po

The way to true spirituality
Cannot depend upon others;
One instant of enlightenment
And I go beyond body and self.
The myriad and profound virtues
Are complete;
Anywhere in the universe
Is now my home.

- Mokuan (1611-1676)

Try not to resist the changes that
come your way. Instead let life live
through you. And do not worry that
your life is turning upside down. How
do you know that the side you are used
to is better than the one to come?

~Shams-i-tabraizi

The moon and the paper
Are the same white
The pupil of the eye and the ink,
Both black.
This mysterious meaning
Remains a circle,
Beyond the possibility
Of understanding.

- Obaku Sokuhi (1611-1671)

https://www.dailyzen.com/

Now is the time to free the heart,
Let all intentions and worries stop,
Free the joy inside the self,
Awaken to the wonder of your life.

Open your eyes and see the friends
Whose hearts recognize your face as kin,
Those whose kindness watchful and near,
Encourages you to live everything here.

See the gifts the years have given,
Things your effort could never earn,
The health to enjoy who you want to be
And the mind to mirror mystery.

~ John O'Donohue

i am so tired

@rookie54

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired.

Shakespeare

@rookie54 said
i am so tired