Rumi

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.

And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?