More quotes by Rumi, The Essential Rumi

"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."
"You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership,who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange."
"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."
"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."
"You're water. We're the millstone.You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity.We're the language that tries to say it.You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing."