Farid al-Din Attar on drop
Farid al-Din Attar9 quotes“The Sea Will be the Sea Whatever the drop’s philosophy.”
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When first you enter Wisdom’s sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul – His dancing breaks beyond the mind’s control.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar The fruit of love’s great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one’s true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar The ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets
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If you don’t drop the ego, it will be the cause of your downfall.
Edgar DoucetEdgar Doucet Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
Assata ShakurAssata Shakur Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.
Harriet TubmanHarriet Tubman Every drop in the ocean counts.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
HomerHomer We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa