- Jalal ud-Din Rumi
(09/30/1207 – 12/17/1273)
Ghurid (now Afghanistan) region mystic and poet
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"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there."
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"In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting."
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"My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety."
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"It is after you have lost your teeth that you
can afford to buy steaks."
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| "As I grow older and older and totter towards the tomb I find that I care less and less who goes to bed with whom."
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"Leaving behind books is even more beautiful—there are far too many children."
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