More quotes by Rumi, The Essential Rumi

"Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself."
"Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?"
"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"
"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."
"When you go through a hard period,When everything seems to oppose you,... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,NEVER GIVE UP!Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!"