Be glad and carefree, and have no fear. For I will do to you that which the rain does to the meadow.
I will be anxious for you, Be not you anxious;I am kinder to you than a hundred fathers.
Rumi
The Mathnawi, Jalalu'ddin Rumi's master work, is a 1200 page poem. Having studied it in an intensive tutorial with a Persian scholar, Dev Prakash in 1979, I am now rereading it 30 years later,using the Reynold Nicholson translation. My hope is that you will find these short selections speaking to your soul, as they do to mine.