There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.
RumiDo good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate
RumiNot Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.
Rumi