Srijeda Prije Quotes & Sayings

A Mystic And A Drunk

The Universe turns on an axis.
Let my soul circle around a table
like a beggar, like a planet
rolling in the vast, totally helpless and free.

The knight and the castle move jaggedly
about the chessboard, but they're actually
centered on the king. They circle.

If love is your center, a ring
gets put on your finger.

Something inside the moth
is made of fire.

A mystic touches the annihilating tip
of pure nothing.

A drunkard thinks peeing is absolution.
Lord, take these impurities from me.

The lord replies, First, understand
the nature of impurity. If your key is bent,
the lock will not open.

I fall silent.
King Shams has come.
Always when I close, he opens. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen. — Sundra Oakley

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters
having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. — Leopold Kronecker

Jesus Christ and St Paul possess the order of charity, not of the mind, for they wished to humble, not to teach. — Blaise Pascal

As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer. — Heidi Baker

The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention. — Usher

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans. — Salman Rushdie