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Listen, my heart,

don’t be deceived by every intoxication:

Jesus is intoxicated with God,

the ass is intoxicated with barley.

—Rumi

A monk said to Nasrudin: ‘I am so detached that I never think of myself, only of others.’
Nasrudin answered: ‘I am so objective that I can look at myself and if I were another person; so I can afford to think of myself.’
—In The subtleties of the inimitable Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah

There are seven ages, each of which is separated from the previous one by a world catastrophe.
—Buddhist Scriptures

God made everything out of nothing. But nothingness shows through.
—Paul Valery