Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same."
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Unseen
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Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet
"O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing."
Rebecca St. James
Singer
"Faith wouldn't be faith without having to trust what is unseen. That's difficult sometimes, and it's almost easier to put our trust in what is tangible. But God wants us to put one foot in front of the other and just step out on faith."
Rene Descartes
Philosopher, Mathematician
"I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen"
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"Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities"
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"You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing."
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"It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure."
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"The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome."
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"The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream."
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"Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal."
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"Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast."
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"Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh."
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"The unseen energy that was once in Shakespeare or Picasso or Galileo or any human form, is also available to all of us. That is because the spirit energy does not die, it simply changes form."
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"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air."
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"The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging."
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"The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used to eradicate the color line; then its days would indeed be numbered."
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"A heart of faith is anchored in the unseen"
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"The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard."
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"Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God."
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"There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet"
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"Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That."
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"Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved."
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"The unseen presence keeps saying to us, ‘You are Joy!’"
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"The best servant does his work unseen."
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