All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light. – Rumi

Where will you plant your grief-seeds? We need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. – Rumi

To change, a person must face the dragon of his appetites with another dragon, the life-energy of the soul. – Rumi

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