Week 3 · mystical

Rumi

The best-selling poet in America wrote in 13th-century Farsi and has been dead for 750 years. His name is Rumi, and what nobody mentions on the Instagram quotes is that he wasn't a poet. Not until age 37. Before that, he was a respectable, buttoned-up religious scholar. Then he met a stranger who wrecked his life in the best possible way.

“"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." Think about the last argument you had where you were absolutely, completely right. Now read that line again.”