why to acquire thirst

"Where there is pain, cures will come; where there is poverty, wealth will follow. Where there are questions, answers will be given; where there are ships, water will flow. Spend less time seeking water and acquire thirst! Then water will gush from above and below" - Jalaluddin Rumi

after all this time

“And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky.”

unanswered prayers

 God said, "It is not because he is despicable that I delay My gift to him: that very delay is an aid. his need brought him from heedlessness to Me, pulling him by the hear to My lane. Were I to satisfy his need, he would go back and immerse himself in that game. Although he laments to the bottom of his soul: "Oh Thou whose protection is sought!" ---let him weep with broken heart and wounded breast. For I am pleased by his voice, his saying "Oh God!" and his sercret prayers... People cage parrots and nightingdales to hear the sound of their sweet songs. But how should they put crows and owls into cages? Who indeed has heart tale of that?... Know for certain that this is the reason believers suffer dissapointment in good and evil. -Rumi

God is with the broken hearted

At the very moment you become content with affliction, the doors of paradise will open. Nothing is more blessed than heartache, for its reward has no end. If you do not show your manliness, you will find nothing. I will be silent, lest a mistake jump from my mouth. -Rumi

 Man in his heartache resembles a target for arrows--he has no armor but intoxication and selflessness. -Rumi

 Though heartache may extract many things from the heart, in truth it will bring something better in return. -Rumi

 "Joys" we normally experience are torments because they keep us far from God. God makes him suffer so he will abandon attachment to himself and strive to attain to Self. -Chittick

Sufi path of love

Quotes from the Book The Sufi Path of Love:
The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi By William C. Chittick 

 Man is called a "rational animal." So man is two things: the food of his animality in this world is this sensual passions and desires. But that which is his quintessence--its food is knowledge, wisdom, and the vision of God. Man's animality is fleeing God while his humanity is fleeing the world. In your one existence, two persons are warring. - Rumi

 He should never fear the trials and tribulations of the spiritual path, which represent so many deaths in relation to the false life of this world and the ego. For the death of one thing is always the rebirth of something better and higher. -Chittick

 God has made nonexistence appear existent and respectable; He has made Existence appear in the guise of nonexistence. He has hidden the Sea and made the foam visible. He has concealed the Wind and shown you the dust. -Rumi

 Rumi uses "poverty" synonymously with annihilation. The dervish is "poor" because he has nothing of "his own" and is totally empty of selfhood. -Chittick

 Poverty will yeild pride in the next world. -Rumi

 What is love? Perfect thirst- So let me explain the Water of Life. -Rumi

 Fear is not even a hair before Love; in the Religion of Love, all things are sacrificed. Love is an attribute of God, but fear is an attribute of the servant afflicted by lust and gluttony. -Rumi

 Love gives birth to a thousand forms; this world is full of its paintings -Rumi

 "The thirst in our souls is the attraction of this Water. We belong to It and It belongs to us." -Rumi

 God is the only object worthy of our love, for He is the True Beloved; every other object of love veils His face. -Chittick

 Look not at your own vileness and weakness look at your aspiration..[..]..seeking is your key to your objects of desire, it is your army and the victory of your banners. -Rumi

 Any hardship or suffering the world inflicts is only a shadow of our separation from God. -Chittick

 The more man suffers, the more he desires to be free of the source of his suffering, his self existence, attachment to himself and the world. The only way to flee from suffering is to seek refuge from ones own ego with God. -Chittick

 Between God and His servant are just two veils; all other veils become manifests from these two: health and wealth. He who is healthy says, "Where is God? I don't know and I don't see." As soon as he begins to suffer, he says, "Oh God! Oh God!" and he begins sharing his secrets with Him and talking to Him. So you see that health was his veil and God was hidden under his pain. So long as man has riches, he gathers together all the means of achieving his desires. Night and day he busies himself with them. But as soon as he loses his wealth, his ego weakens and he turns round about God. -Rumi

 Whenever you turn your heart toward something, His severity will detach you from it--fix not your heart on any place, do not persist. -Rumi

Life without Him is my death, glory without Him is my shame! -Rumi

 O Thou who art our Benefactor, "make firm our feet" [II 250]--Without Thee ease is tribulation and health is sickness. -Rumi

 Union with this world is separation from that world. The health of this body is the sickness of the spirit -Rumi

 Love is a rosegarden--take nourishment from it. The tree of poverty fills the inward garden with fruit. -Rumi

 ..for those self interested motives are like veils upon the eye, twisted around the vision like blindfolds. -Rumi