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

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

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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