What is the meaning of the following quote from Rumi? “In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.” I think I get the gist of it but seems like something was lost in translation....

I remember a beautiful quote about the soul being like a bird that flies through a house at night. Its entrance out of darkness through the first window is birth, and its exit through the second window back into the darkness is death. I seem to recall it was by a Christian missionary in the cont...

With reference to Samuel R Delany's book, Dhalgren: When The Kid "first" crosses the bridge into the autumnal city, he's met by a group of women who are exiting. They tell him it's dangerous inside and offer him a weapon to stay safe. The weapon is called an "orchid" and is described thus: "...