“Life's a show and we all play a part
And when the music starts
We open up our hearts”
“From bitter searching of the heart,
quickened with passion and with pain
we rise
to play a greater part
this is the faith from which we start.”
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Leonard Cohen 169
Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934–2016Related quotes
As quoted in "Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi" http://en.mfethullahgulen.com/content/view/1820/49/ by Fethullah Gülen in The Fountain #24 (July-September 2004)
Variant translation: I want a heart which is split, chamber by chamber, by the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longings and desires to it.
“…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
Source: Angels & Demons
"On the Life of Man" (1612)
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