Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
RumiDo you know what you are? You are a manuscript oฦ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.
RumiI am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved
Rumi