If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.
RumiKnow that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water!
RumiThe spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture.
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