Rumi

• Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
• Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
• Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
• Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
• Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.
• Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
• If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
• If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
• It's your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
• Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
• Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
• Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
• Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
• The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
• The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
• What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.
• What you seek is seeking you.
• When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.
• Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
• You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
• Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
• 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.