When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.
Rumi
Return
I am a bird
I am a bird of God’s garden
and I do not belong to this dusty world
For a day or two they have put me here
in this cage of my own body
I did not come here of my own
I will not return of my own
to my own country.
Rumi
God’s purpose for man
God’s purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart. God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him. The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God. Rumi
When the light returns
When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
Rumi
Do not grieve over
Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.
Rumi
The soul of the
The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.
Johannes Kepler
The two revolutions, I
The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the return of the declination to its original value is slightly ahead of the period of the centre. Hence it necessarily follows that the equinoxes and solstices seem to anticipate their timing, not because the sphere of the fixed stars moves to the east, but rather the equatorial circle moves to the west, being at an angle to the plane of the ecliptic in proportion to the declination of the axis of the terrestrial globe.
Nicolaus Copernicus