What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.
RumiThe ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?
RumiThere is an unseen sweetness in the stomachโs emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you . . .
Rumi