HEARTSTONE

from ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart.
A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.” 

“What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”

“I will be waiting here....
For your silence to break,
For your soul to shake,
For your love to wake!”

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”

“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.” 

“There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.”