Quotes


Becoming the Lover
How can you ever hope to know the Beloved
Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
And when you are the Lover at last, you don't care.
Whatever you know, or don't – only Love is real.


-   Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)


The seed of God is in us. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut tress, and God seeds into God.
-   Meister Eckhart

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