Wherever you are, in whatever circumstances you may be, strive to be a lover. When love comes into your possession, you will always be a lover — in the grave, at resurrection, in paradise, ad infinitum. When you plant wheat, assuredly wheat will grow. And that wheat will be the same in the storehouse and in the oven.
— Jelaluddin Rumi, Signs of the Unseen by W. M. Thackston, Jr., translator