13th-century Sufi Mystic   

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī           

“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I’ve been knocking from the inside.”

“At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won’t use the door,
only the window.”

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.  Reason is powerless in the expression of love.”

“And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice”

“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

More words of wisdom and ecstasy from Rumi  here