Say This to Yourself

Lesson 295: Say This to Yourself

Be careful! Be calm! Pray! Say this to yourself:
"Even the eye of the hurricane closes in the end."
The Lord of the worlds has promised: "I am with the Patient."
O Patient One, grace us a drop of your Patience.
I've given you all I know; now you must do what you can.
Silence! My Lover is smiling: that smile makes all words ash.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)