More quotes by Rumi, The Essential Rumi

"Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself."
"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"
"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."
"This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.I don't plan it.When I'm outside the saying of it,I get very quiet and rarely speak at all."
"Knowledge that is acquiredis not like this. Those who have it worry ifaudiences like it or not.It's a bait for popularity.Disputational knowing wants customers.It has no soul...The only real customer is God.Chew quietlyyour sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stayplayfully childish."