We should ask God

To help us toward manners. Inner gifts

Do not find their way

To creatures without just respect.

If a man or woman flails about, he not only

Smashes his house,

He burns the whole world down.

Your depression is connected to your insolence

And your refusal to praise. If a man or woman is

On the path, and refuses to praise — that man or woman

Steals from others every day — in fact is a shoplifter!

The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself.

Angels began shining when they achieved discipline.

The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes near.

The moment that foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.

~ Rumi