When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce.
Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Jalal ad-Din Rumi Quotes - Rumi Quotations
Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
In this world of trickery emptiness is what your heart wants.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improves.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, "I'll do nothing until I can be sure". Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean!
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Hangovers come with love, yet love's the cure for hangovers.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
In this world of trickery emptiness is what your heart wants.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improves.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, "I'll do nothing until I can be sure". Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean!
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Hangovers come with love, yet love's the cure for hangovers.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Barack Obama Quotes - Quotations
Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
Barack Obama
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Barack Obama
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Barack Obama
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
Barack Obama
I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
Barack Obama
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
Barack Obama
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
Barack Obama
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don`t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
Barack Obama
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Barack Obama
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Barack Obama
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Barack Obama
If you`re walking down the right path and you`re willing to keep walking, eventually you`ll make progress.
Barack Obama
I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
Barack Obama
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
Barack Obama
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it`s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama
This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.
Barack Obama
Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
Barack Obama
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
Barack Obama
The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
Barack Obama
John Templeton Quotes
Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.
John Templeton
I have no quarrel with what I learned in the Presbyterian Church — I am still an enthusiastic Christian. But why shouldn't I try to learn more? Why shouldn't I go to Hindu services? Why shouldn't I go to Muslim services? If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
John Templeton
I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
John Templeton
I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.
John Templeton
I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
John Templeton
I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.
John Templeton
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
John Templeton
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
John Templeton
The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
John Templeton
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
John Templeton
Work at being a humble person.
John Templeton
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
John Templeton
If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
John Templeton
It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
John Templeton
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
John Templeton
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
John Templeton
We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?
John Templeton
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.
John Templeton
A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.
John Templeton
John Templeton
I have no quarrel with what I learned in the Presbyterian Church — I am still an enthusiastic Christian. But why shouldn't I try to learn more? Why shouldn't I go to Hindu services? Why shouldn't I go to Muslim services? If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
John Templeton
I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
John Templeton
I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.
John Templeton
I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
John Templeton
I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.
John Templeton
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
John Templeton
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
John Templeton
The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
John Templeton
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
John Templeton
Work at being a humble person.
John Templeton
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
John Templeton
If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
John Templeton
It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
John Templeton
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
John Templeton
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
John Templeton
We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?
John Templeton
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.
John Templeton
A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.
John Templeton
Simple Living Quotes - Simplicity Quotes
Words of wisdom comes out of simple people mouths.
Arabic proverb
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein
Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu
Everybody should practice simple and virtuous living . They should never seek recourse to manipulative tendencies.
Yajur Veda
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo DaVinci
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Charles de Lint
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
Henry David Thoreau
Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
Confucius
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold Glasgow
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Arabic proverb
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein
Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu
Everybody should practice simple and virtuous living . They should never seek recourse to manipulative tendencies.
Yajur Veda
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo DaVinci
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Charles de Lint
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
Henry David Thoreau
Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
Confucius
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold Glasgow
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