Quote of the Week
“Your depression is connected to your insolence / And your refusal to praise. If a man or woman is / On the path, and refuses to praise—that man or woman / Steals from others every day—in fact is a shoplifter!”[i]—Rumi, thirteenth-century poet
Source
[i] Rumi, “Praising Manner,” trans. Coleman Barks, in The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations, ed. by Robert Bly (New York: Perennial, 2005), 342.