If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.
RumiOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
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.
RumiBotha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death.
Rumi