Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment… – Rumi, translated by Edward Henry Whinfield

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

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. – Rumi

There’s a hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music…. When you’re full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should…. – Rumi