A Quote by Rumi

You think the shadow is the substance.

Rumi

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Rumi
Poet
September 30, 1207 - December 17, 1273

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

William Shakespeare

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

John Dewey

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it

Shakti Gawain

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

John Lyly

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

William Shakespeare

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.