Outward and Inward

"How should bread restore to health the spirit that averts its heart from the command of the Beloved Spirit?
Or did you suppose that when you read the words of the Mathnawi you heard them gratis, without you having to give anything in return?
The discourse of wisdom and the hidden mystery comes in, but like fables, it shows only the husk, not the kernel of the berries.
The difference between truth and falsehood is visible at the moment when the collyrium of Divine favor opens the eye.
If you become really acquainted with this pure water, which is the Word of God and spiritual,
All distress will vanish from your soul, and the heart will find its way to the rose garden.
Because every one who catches a scent of the mystery of the Divine scriptures, flies into an orchard with a running brook.
Or did you suppose that we see the face of the Saints as it is in reality?
God does not nod his head to you outwardly, but He makes you a prince over the princes of this world.
Just as he gave the stone such virtue that it was honored as His creatures; that is to say, it became gold,
If a drop of water gains the favor of God, it becomes a pearl..."

Rumi (Vol.4, 3458-3490)

Commentary: The spiritual words and poetry of the Mathnawi are beautiful, but not sufficient. What Rumi points to, will cost "everything".