If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.
RumiThe cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.
RumiNew organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.
Rumi