{"quotes":[{"text":"Die every night so in the morning you are reborn.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["anew","appreciate","death","die","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","live","living","metamorphosis","mindset","morning","night","philosophy","rebirth","reborn","transcend","transcendence"],"id":18200,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"How is it that there was never youuntil there wasand then all was you?","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["affection","ardent","ardor","beauty","beloved","boyfriend","crave","desire","destiny","emotion","falling-in-love","fate","friend","girlfriend","god","harmony","heart","how-is-it","husband","in-love","inevitable","infatuate","infatuation","inspiration","inspirational","inspire","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","linger","love","love-poem","love","loved","lover","loving","marriage","mate","me-and-you","obsess","partner","passion","pine","poem","quote","soulmate","think","transcend","transcendence","truth","union","unity","wedding","wife","you-and-i","you-and-me"],"id":22124,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["awakening","aware","awareness","beautiful","beauty","beauty","blind","blindness","conscious","consciousness","everybody","everyone","everywhere","face","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","perceive","perception","perspective","see","sight","transcend","transcendence","ugliness","ugly","until","vision"],"id":30115,"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":"Any pain that human beings can create, human beings can transcend.","author":"Sarah Schulman","tags":["conflict","feminism","human-beings","overstating-harm","pain","transcend"],"id":35130,"author_id":"Sarah+Schulman"},{"text":"I have no use for these other loves.Seal them shut in jarsand place them in the pantry. A reserve of love.Thank them for their love.They are so kind.Perhaps store them in the fridgeFor others to take.They say love is a panacea. I know it is not.Flakes of snow,no two are alike.When I am down on my knees, hopeless and angry,for the world no longer makes sense,I won't look in the pantry or fridge.It is your hand pressing on my shoulderthat makes me whole,makes me forget.What trouble? What world?","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["angry","beloved","change","forget","fridge","hope","hopeful","hopeless","in-love","jar","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kind","kojouri","love","love-poem","loved","lover","loves","loving","metamorphosis","oneness","others","panacea","pantry","poem","poetry","quote","relationship","reserve","seal","snow","thank","transcend","transcendent","transform","transformation","trouble","union","unity","world"],"id":35168,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["art","artwork","awareness","congruence","consciousness","create","divine","divinity","effort","experience","feeling","flow","good","hands","honest","intent","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","labor","manual-labor","mindfulness","moment","origin","physical","play","power-of-now","prerequisite","present","quote","requirement","sincere","sincerely","soul","transcend","transcendence","universe","work"],"id":36833,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love,then this cup is love,then this tavern is love,then this life is love.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["awareness","begets","beloved","bliss","consciousness","cup","cupbearer","drinking","drinks","drunk","drunken","drunkenness","ecstasy","enjoy","enjoyment","euphoria","faith","god","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","live-in-the-moment","love","love-begets-love","love-is-love","love-poems","love","love-wins","lover","loving","merriment","one-love","oneness","pours","presence","present","religion","spiritual","spirituality","sufi","sufi-poems","sufi","sufism","tavern","togetherness","transcend","transcendence","union","unity","wine"],"id":46798,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"They say that the personal transformation that gives rise to self-realization – the transcendent function that leads to the highest echelon of human attainment – takes place on the border between consciousness and unconsciousness, and that when we dream we dissolve the boundary between consciousness and unconsciousness. In other words, we dream a world into being, and we are the collective product of our lifetime of immanent dreams. If the oracles are correct, I dreamed you into being, and you represent the real point of intersection between dream and reality.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["consciousness","dream-and-reality","dreams","love","love","love-and-sayings","self-realization","self-realization","transcend","transcendence","transcendence","transformation","unconscious","unconscious-mind","unconsciousness"],"id":56097,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"The best music is that which subtly connects with your reality but mischievously transcends you into an enticing imagination.","author":"Hrishikesh Agnihotri","tags":["imagination","music","transcend"],"id":59615,"author_id":"Hrishikesh+Agnihotri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}