Mark Stenhoff

“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
― Rumi

“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi