What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions. – Rumi

And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here. – Rumi

If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, “How are you?” and no one says How aren’t you? – Rumi