"This whole life is a challenge to growth.

That is true religion and that is true psychology too - because a true religion cannot be anything other than a true psychology.

I call that psychology 'the psychology of the Buddhas'. It does not make you feel guilty; it accepts you, it loves you, but it doesn't make you feel proud to be as you are.

It gives you a great challenge to be more than you are. It gives you a divine discontent. It makes you aflame with a desire to go higher and higher - not higher than others, but higher than yourself.

Tomorrow should not be just a repetition of today -

 that is the meaning of divine discontent. Today should not be just a repetition of yesterday, otherwise you have not lived. 

Today must bring some new gifts to you, some new flowers, some new rays. Some new windows MUST open today." 

(Excerpt from "The Secret of Secrets)

Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love.
By my passion of love for Love
I have ground sweet as sugar.
O furious Wind, I am only a straw before you;
How could I know where I will be blown next?
Whoever claims to have made a pact with Destiny
Reveals himself a liar and a fool;
What is any of us but a straw in a storm?
How could anyone make a pact with a hurricane?
God is working everywhere his massive Resurrection;
How can we pretend to act on our own?
In the hand of Love I am like a cat in a sack;
Sometimes Love hoists me into the air,
Sometimes Love flings me into the air,
Love swings me round and round His head;
I have no peace, in this world or any other.
The lovers of God have fallen in a furious river;
They have surrendered themselves to Love's commands.
Like mill wheels they turn, day and night, day and night,
Constantly turning and turning, and crying out.

Rumi - Poems of Passion (translated by Andrew Harvey)