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

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. – Rumi, as interpreted by Camille and Kabir Helminski

Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

Come, whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. This is not a caravan of despair. It doesn’t matter if you’ve broken your vow a thousand times, still and yet again come! – Rumi

…rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky. – Rumi