When you Knock...

*When you knock at the door of reality, it will be opened.
*When you become hungry, you become like an angry dog: you become fierce and ill-tempered and ill-natured.
*When the needy one has no refuge, the King will show you kindness.
*Whenever the one in love with God speaks, the scent of Love is springing from that mouth into the abode of Love.
*Do not burn a blanket on account of a flea. Do not let a day go to waste on account of every gnat's headache, every trivial vexation.
*If you are wholly perplexed and in trouble, have patience: patience is the key to joy.
*How should bread give strength until it is broken? How should uncrushed clusters of grapes yield wine?

Rumi (Vol.1:selections from 2870-2932)

Commentary: What a gift it would be, to go through this day, as Rumi would have us experience it; with confidence, satisfied, trusting in God's kindness,  focusing  on what is essential, patient, and experiencing the rough and tumble as grace. "For us there is only the trying..." (T. S. Eliot)