Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
RumiYou left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.
RumiThis world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.
Rumi