What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I’ve lived too long where I can be reached. – Rumi

Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, “How are you?” and no one says How aren’t you? – Rumi

Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. – Rumi

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? – Rumi