“Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?”
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (1983)
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Southern philosophical novelist 1916–1990Related quotes
“It looks like it's from another planet. A good planet. A planet with better designers”
Introduction of the first iMac computer in Cupertino, California, (6 May 1998)
1990s
“No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.”
Source: Vampire Knight, Vol. 1
“There is only one way to see things,
until someone shows us how to look at them
with different eyes”
Old Man
Source: Song lyrics, Harvest (1972)
“The look in Manny´s eye was the ocular equivalent of a middle finger…”
Source: Lover Unleashed
Session 740, Page 618
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)
Context: You are not a miniature self, an adjunct to some superbeing, never to share fully In its reality. In those terms you are that superself - looking out of only one eye, or using just one finger. Much of this is very difficult to verbalize. You are not subordinate to some giant consciousness. While you think in such terms, however, I must speak of reincarnational selves counterparts, because you are afraid that if you climb out of what you think your identity is, then you will lose it.
"Ali in Battle" in Ch. 20 : In Baghdad dreaming of Cairo
The Essential Rumi (1995)
Context: I am God's Lion, not the lion of passion....
I have no longing
except for the One.
When a wind of personal reaction comes,
I do not go along with it.
There are many winds full of anger,
and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around,
but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.