Rumi

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

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

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

What you seek is seeking you.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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

This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

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

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.

Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.