Spiritual Poverty

"Consort with the One with whom your trusts are safe from loss and violation...
Reason's beginning is constraint, but its end is a hundred expansions of the spirit.
"O Giver of all understanding, come to my help; no one wills anything, unless You will it.
Both the desire for good, and the good action itself proceed from You: who are we? You are the First. You are the Last.
Increase our desire for worship: do not send upon us the sloth and the stagnation of fatalism."
Every shop has a different kind of merchandise: the Mathnawi is a shop for spiritual poverty.
Therefor do not complain of affliction, for it is a smooth paced horse carrying you toward enlightenment.
The Friend is the support and refuge on the Way: when you consider well, you will see that the Friend is the Way."

Rumi (Vol.6,1419- 1591)

Commentary: According to Rumi, what distracts us from God is no blessing. And every event that turns us toward what is true and eternal, is grace.