Mevlana God Quotes & Sayings

I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a great respect for religion, and the subject has always fascinated me, beyond almost all others (with a few exceptions, like evolution and paleontology). — Stephen Jay Gould

They are structures that we build every time we engage in a thought that's just a little bit higher than a thought we had a moment before, or an activity that's just a little bit more noble than the activity we engaged in a moment before. — Ken Wilber

Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people. — Mary Lambert

The human mind and body are truly extraordinary. They are the quintessence of excellence in motion. We talk, touch, see, hear, taste, smell, and feel. We dream, aspire, and become. All that we are is mind and body and spirit - that is our universe. — Lorii Myers

If a person claims that he really loves someone, evidence is asked from him. And that evidence is the giving away of possessions, the granting of favors. Just as when Mevlana claimed that he loved me, when I came he granted me thousands of favors and protected me. I regard these all as a grace from God. — Shams Tabrizi

Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our night sky. And just like the signals that we send and receive here on Earth, we can convert these transmissions into sound using simple analog techniques. — Honor Harger

Our lives have a way of eddying back on themselves, offering us the same view over and over, daring us to get it right just once. — Jess Walter

Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is. — John Steinbeck

Though you read a hundred volumes without a pause,
you won't remember a single point without a Divine decree;
but if you serve God and read not a single book,
you'll learn rare sciences within your own heart.
~ Mevlana aka Rumi — Mevlana

I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college. — Billy Bob Thornton

Representational formats are important and interesting, and I'm going to ignore them for the most part. — Robert Kurzban

Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish. — Larry David

I have a lot of confidence in myself, a lot of confidence in the race team, our equipment and if my mind plays games on me, I just fall back on the team. — Jimmie Johnson