Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)

"For the proper alchemist nothing is tiny."

"Seek the sound that echoes in the soul."

"If the light within you is burning, then all of what you see is lit."

"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in his heart."

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

"I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within."

"There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen."

"Die before you die."

"Let yourself be love. You don't have to understand it."

"Gratitude is the wine for the soul."

"Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life."

"Do not give your heart to anything until your heart asks, where is my beloved?"

"When the world pushes you to your knees, you're perfectly positioned to pray."

"The only resistance to true love is fear."

"I belong to no religion. My religion is love."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"Be like the sun and the meadows - generous with your being."

"A great person is one who has not lost the heart of a child."

"There is a table of communion set inside each of us."

"All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusions we crave."

"The mind is the king of the senses, but love is the king of the mind."

"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."

"The wound is healed not by time alone but by the light of consciousness."

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

"Out of this great love for you, roses bloom in spring, nightingales sing."

"You are the universe experiencing itself."

"Every moment contains an eternity."

"For you to understand anything, first you must love it."

"The wound is the place where Light enters you - so accept your pain."

"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly."