“Inside you there are universes. You contain multitudes.”

“In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.”

“When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.”

“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”

“In the particular is contained the universal.”

“When the physicist speaks of the expanding universe with atheistic wonder, he is feeling the same transcendent pull that Rumi describes: Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.”

“We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.”

“Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.”

“A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”