What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions. – Rumi

Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there. – Rumi

That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change. – Rumi

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened…. Let the beauty we love be what we do. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks