{"quotes":[{"text":"My love, we can close our eyes but we cannot stop the sunrise.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["accept","acceptance","beloved","close","destiny","eyes","fate","future","give-in","imminent","impending","inescapable","inevitable","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","lover","peace","que-sera-sera","sunrise","surrender","surrendering","tomorrow","unavoidable","undeniable"],"id":19410,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beloved","choice","couple","door","doorstep","ego","enter","give-in","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","leave","let-go","love","love","lover","relationship","relationship","spiritual","spirituality","sufi","sufism","surrender","transcend","transcendence"],"id":33305,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["accept","acceptance","acknowledge","balance","character","consciousness","contradiction","contradictions","contradictory","contrary","different","ego","embrace","eternal","eternally","existence","find","find-yourself","forget","found","give-in","identity","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","let-go","life","life","look","looking","lose","lose-yourself","lost","make","oppose","opposites","opposition","paradox","remember","search","searching","seek","seeking","self","surrender","truth","yin-and-yang","yin-yang","yourself"],"id":108405,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Always ask yourself: 'What will happen if I say nothing?","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["adage","always","aphorism","ask","calm","circumstance","everything","flow","forgive","give-in","happen","harmony","inspirational","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kind","kindness","kojouri","let-go","maxim","mind","mindful","mindfulness","moment","nothing","peace","present","quote","rights","say","serene","serenity","silence","silent","simple","speak","surrender","talk","think","think-before-you-act","thought","tranquility","truth","unity","zen"],"id":127730,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["better","buddha","buddhism","control","give-in","harmony","inspiration","inspirational","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","life-hacks","living","motivation","peace","philosophy","quote","surrender","truth","unity","way-of-life","zen"],"id":137234,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["character","characteristics","create","creating","destroy","destroying","ego","experience","facade","first","give-in","identity","illusion","jung","jungian","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","let-go","life","life","mask","meaning","meaning-of-life","perception","personality","perspective","possessions","pride","psyche","psychology","reality","self","simple","subjective","surrender","truth"],"id":137473,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"There are some days we can claim and there are other days that claim us.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["awareness","claim","consciousness","day","days","give-in","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","moment","night","presence","present","surrender","truth"],"id":197380,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Feel da power swallow you whole. Let go an’ lose yo’self in it.","author":"Jason Medina","tags":["a-ghost-in-new-orleans","advice","feel-the-power","give-in","jason-medina","let-go","lose-yourself","power","swallow-you-whole","tribal-publications","tribal-publications-inc"],"id":233375,"author_id":"Jason+Medina"},{"text":"Having drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated beyond recognition. Now, I only pray for the nearness of You so I may advance in my annihilation.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["advance","annihilation","beloved","dervish","dregs","drink","drunk","faith","give-in","god","god-is-love","intoxicate","intoxicating","intoxication","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","love-is-love","love-wins","lover","nearness","one-love","pray","recognition","religion","religious","spiritual","spirituality","sufi","sufism","sufism-poems","sufism","surrender","togetherness","transcend","transcendence","union","unity"],"id":243685,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["courage","give-in","give-up","inspiration","inspirational","kamand","kamand-kojouri","keep-going","kojouri","motivation","poem","quit","quote","resign","strength","surrender","tenacity","truth"],"id":255541,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}