A Quote by Rumi

He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun — © Rumi
He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

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When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun!
Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.
Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.
She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
I observed a man sourcing candle wax from South America and selling it to Japan. I thought: 'That's unbelievable. Talking on the phone in his office, that man made money moving candle wax from one country to another.' It really interested me.
Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.
When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.
Instead of it being the mark of a real man that you can shoot somebody at 50 feet and kill them with a gun, the mark of a real man is that you would never do anything like that. . . . The gun is a great equalizer because it makes wimps as dangerous as people who really have skill and bravery and so I'd like to have this notion that anyone using a gun is a wuss. They aren't anybody to be looked up to. They're somebody to look down at because they couldn't defend themselves or couldn't protect others without using a gun.
When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun
At night a candle's brighter than the sun
Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'
When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.
If you want to own the Sun, you must first understand candle.
Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
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