Love has no cause;
it is the astrolabe of God’s secrets.
Lover and Loving are inseparable
and timeless.
Although I may try to describe Love
when I experience it I am speechless.
Although I may try to write about Love
I am rendered helpless;
my pen breaks and the paper slips away
at the ineffable place
where Lover, Loving and Loved are one.
Every moment is made glorious
by the light of Love.
they hold everything you want.If you put your hands on this oar with me, they would no longerlift anything to yourmouth that might wound your precious land-that sacred earth that isyour body.If you put your soul against this oar with me,the power that made the universe will enter your sinewfrom a source not outside your…
which has yet to comeI’m tied upin the prisonwhich has yet to existNot having playedthe game of chessI’m already the checkmateNot having tasteda single cup of your wineI’m already drunkNot having enteredthe battlefieldI’m already wounded and slainI no longerknow the differencebetween image and realityLike the shadowI amAndI am notTranslated by: Fereydoun Kia
you whose heart such anxiety has not disturbed, sleep on.Love’s place is out beyond the many separate sects;since you love choosing and excluding, sleep on.Love’s dawn cup is our sunrise, his dusk our supper;you whose longing is for sweets and whose passion is for supper, sleep on.In search of the philosopher’s stone, we are melting…
Will they wake with their hearts wanting to play,the way wingsshould?Will they have dreamed the needed flights and gatheredthe strength from the planets that allmen and women need to balancethe wonderful charms ofthe earthso that her power and beauty does not make us forget our own?I know all about the ways of the heart –…
There is a way between voice and presencewhere information flows.In disciplined silence it opens.With wandering talk it closes.
What hidden sweetness there is in this emptiness of the belly!Man is surely like a lute, no more and no less;For if, for instance, the belly of the lute becomes full, nolament high or low will arise from that full lute.If your brain and belly are on fire through fasting, because ofthe fire every moment…
