Ruchi

“Now I remember the story. A True Man stares at his old shoes and sheepskin jacket. Every day he goes up to his attic to look at his work-shoes and worn-out coat. This is his wisdom, to remember the original clay and not get drunk with ego and arrogance. To visit those shoes and jacket is praise. The Absolute works with nothing. The workshop, the materials are what does not exist. Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it. Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“When God
wishes to help,
he lets us weep.
Wherever water flows,
life flourishes,
wherever tears fall
divine mercy is shown.”
― Rumi

“Raise your words, not your voice,
it is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi

“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi