I just love wonderful quotations. Do you too?

My friend Jeff Keller’s recent newsletter http://www.YourSpiritualJourney.net included a quote from Rumi. So simple, so profound, and powerful in only six words. I will share the quote with you in just a moment, but first I would like to tell you that soon after, I happened to glance at a beginning page in David Hawkins’ Power vs. Force which states the same theme.

Here is what Rumi wrote:

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

And here is what David Hawkins wrote — it’s like a poem:

The skillful are not obvious

They appear to be simple-minded.

Those who know this know the patterns of the Absolute.

To know the patterns is the Subtle Power

The Subtle Power moves all things and has no name.

As would be expected, God in Heavenletters™ too states this theme. This is one of my favorites:

Fairy tales are full of stories where the older brothers refused to share their lunch with a little old man or woman on their travels. The youngest simpleton son shares his lunch, however, and he wins the princess and the castle. The simpleton son does not share with a reward in mind. He shares because he cannot not share. Simple innocence shares. It counts neither costs nor reward. Innocence is too simple to think there may not be enough to go around. Innocence knows no lack.

Do you happen to know of other great quotations that share this theme? Or other Heavenletters that do?