When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears. – Rumi

This is how we are with wine and beautiful food… we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward. – Rumi

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. – Rumi