This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, meanness
Some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
Who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture.
Still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
Meet them at the door, laughing; and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
Because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. 

- Rumi

Ground yourself, strip
yourself down,
To blind, loving silence.
Stay there, until you see
You are gazing at the Light
With its own ageless eyes

- Rumi

O friend, understand.
The body is like the ocean, rich with hidden treasures.
Open your innermost chamber
And light its lamp.
Within the body are gardens,
Rare flowers, peacocks; the inner Music; Within the body a lake of bliss, On it, the white soul-swans take their joy.

- Mirabai

Grant a great dignity my friend
to the cup of your life
Love has designed it to hold His eternal wine

- Rumi

Awake, my dear.
Be kind to your sleeping heart.
Take it our into the vast fields of Light And let it breathe.

- Hafiz