Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)

"In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be."

"The rose has nothing to say; its perfume is its praise."

"Wherever you are is called here, and you must treat it as a powerful place."

"Listen to the reed and the tale it tells, how it sang once with the lips that played it."

"When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about."

"You have within you more love than you could ever understand."

"There's a field somewhere beyond all doubt and fighting. I'll meet you there."

"The truth has infinite interpretations."

"Be kind and merciful; let your gate stand open to the stranger and the poor."

"The bird of your soul only wants to fly."

"Greed and caution are two different things."

"I want the sky to crack open with the face of my Beloved."

"Failure is the path of least persistence."

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

"The wound itself becomes medicine."

"You rush around talking so fast that you miss the person next to you."

"These spiritual cherishings, this is a real experience, a real encounter."

"Silence is the language of God; all else is poor translation."

"What you seek is also seeking you."

"The soul is here for its own joy."

"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Hell is a state of trying to manage without God."

"There is a life force within your soul; seek that life."

"The lover's cause is separate from all other causes and is elevated above them."

"The wound is the place where Light enters the soul's dwelling."

"I am your student and servant; you are my teacher."

"What, after all, is half so dear as changing gold to thought through books?"

"In your light, I learn how to love."

"The intelligence of your life matches the intelligence of your Creator."

"Come! Come again, whoever you are, come!"