Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)

"The beauty of a heart is like a thousand gardens. You will walk through them all."

"When you recognize the emptiness of the ego, you recognize fullness."

"Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you truly love. It will not lead you astray."

"These spiritual window pains have closed. The sun can no longer be seen through the glass."

"The soul is here for its own joy. The soul is not here to suffer."

"I will find my way through the night. I will walk carefully and with hope."

"Every leaf a mirror reflecting the same light, the same shadows."

"Don't seek the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them."

"Your struggles are not random acts of bad luck. They are redirecting you toward your true calling."

"I am a shell of a forgotten pearl. Fill me with your light."

"The senses are divine doors. Shut them all to sense the divine."

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."

"The presence of knowledge does not prove that love is also there."

"My beloved, the wound is a treasure map. X marks the spot where the light lives."

"I saw the beauty of a moment, and I lingered there forever."

"The garden of this world is not for sale. Yet you must plant your own paradise."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."

"The guest is God. Serve with all your heart."

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."

"The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open."

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love."

"Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place."

"Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving."

"In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems."

"The only way out is through the heart."

"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."

"You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?"

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled."