Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.

About this quote

This is a contemporary popular rendering of Rumi — beloved, widely shared, and considerably freer than the classical translations of his Persian.

Rumi (1207–1273) composed the Masnavi and the Divan-e Shams in Konya. For sourced, public-domain translations see the Masnavi quotes on this site.