If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Rumi Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Rumi, The Essential Rumi Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. Rumi Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Rumi, The Essential Rumi Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. Rumi The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night. Rumi These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. Rumi, The Essential Rumi Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know. Rumi, Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. Rumi Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. Rumi When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion. Rumi The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves, it leaves the leaves alone. Rumi, The Essential Rumi When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated. Rumi There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts. Rumi, The Essential Rumi They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls? Rumi

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire. Rumi