What we most need is what we already are: our essential Self. There is no escape; there is only coming home [...] The submission of the lower self to the Higher Self, of the self to the Whole in each moment, becomes the central fact of existence. Submission is t olive for one's Self - the eternal I - not for one's ego.

The Work is to bring the outer and the inner into harmony. (p. 103)

Since in order to speak, one must first listen,learn to speak by listening.Rumi, Mathnawi I: 1627

The Sufi's book is not of ink and letters;it is nothing but a heart white as snow. Rumi, Mathnawi II: 159