More quotes by Rumi, The Essential Rumi

"Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations."
"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!"
"There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.The hopers would feel slighted if they knew."
"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."
"Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?"