“Our minds live on difference; the gap exists, while fullness leaves them inert.”

Original: L'esprit vit de différence, l'écart existe, la plénitude le laisse inerte. — Intellectual life depends upon contrast, tension and incompleteness rather than perfect satisfaction. · Cahiers (French)

• Creativity
• Difference
• Mind

“When has religion ever been one? Here each faith has a different desire. Unity belongs to the resurrection, when all eyes fix on one place.”

Original: کی دین یکی بوده است؟ اینجا هر دینی را خواهشی دیگر است. یکی شدن در قیامت ممکن است که همه چشم بر یک جا نهند. — Rumi refuses a political shortcut to oneness while keeping a last horizon of shared gaze. · Fihi Ma Fihi, Discourse 7 (Persian)

• Difference
• Religion
• Unity

“The bee and spider, by a diverse power, Suck honey and poison from the selfsame flower.”

Observing how the same source can yield opposite results depending on the nature of the one who draws from it · Epigraph, A Poetical Rapsody (1611)

• Difference
• Nature
• Wisdom

“Holland is as fertile in sects as Italy is in mushrooms: new doctrines sprout overnight from the dreams of men.”

A caustic comment on the rapid growth of religious divisions · Prose observation or satire

• Difference
• Religion
• Satire