Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
RumiNo one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was.
RumiBe drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.
RumiMy words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.
Rumi