Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)

"The mind creates a perfect prison and we joyfully lock ourselves in."

"Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest and let the spirits fly in and out."

"You are precious. Wake up to your own dignity."

"I will find a thousand ways to entertain your soul."

"Everything in the universe is within you."

"Seeking is not accomplished by the feet."

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new."

"You have not failed. You've just found another way that won't work."

"With maturity comes the realization that your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts."

"You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self."

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

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"

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

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

"The Guest House - This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival."

"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting."

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

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

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

"The only true religion is the religion of love."

"Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."

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

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another."

"Everything you want, you already are."

"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."

"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."

"Let the beauty we love be what we do."

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

"There is no worse blindness than refusing to see."