Rumi

If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience; patience is the key to joy.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

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

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: Every success depends upon focusing the heart.

Even though you’re not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn’t necessary on the way to the Lord.

If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.

If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal.

There is no worse sickness for the soul, O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.