MASNAVI II:746-7

IF you have a touchstone, choose; otherwise, go and devote yourself to one who is discerning. Either you must have a touchstone within your own soul or if you do not know the way, find a guide.

MASNAVIII:566-8

The reflections cast from good friends are needed until you become, without the aid of any reflector, A drawer of water from the sea.
Know that at first the reflection is jus imitation, but when it continues to recur, It turns into direct realization of truth.
Until it has become realization, Do not part from the friends who guide you –
Do not break away from the shell until the raindrop has become a pearl.

DIVAN-1I Shams 2530

MY Heart has become a pen in the Beloved’s fingers: Tonight He may write a Z, perhaps tomorrow, a B.
He cuts and sharpens His pen well to write in riqa’ and naskh; The pen says, ‘Lo, I obey, for You know best what to do.”

MASNAVI I:2107

THAT VOICE which is the origin of every cry and sound is, indeed, the only Voice; the rest are mere echoes.

MASNAVI I:1736; 1739-40

ALL Kings are enslaved to their slaves, all people are ready to die for one who dies for them.
The hearts of lovers are captivated by those who have lost their hearts to them.
Whoever you regard as a lover, know he is also beloved.
And we who are God’s beloved must become His Lovers.