Quotations

Rumi

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

Rumi (a 13th-century Persia poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic).

Henry Adams

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Henry Adams (American journalist, historian, academic and novelist).

Vera Nazarian

A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.

Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song

Vera Nazarian (An Armenian-Russian - by ethnicity - American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction").

Herman Hesse

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.

Hermann Hesse (A German-born, Swiss poet, novelist, and painter).