If you want the unseen world,
you’re not living your truth.
Both wishes are foolish,
but you’ll be forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is
love’s confusing joy.
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The beauty of the heart
its lips give to drinkof the water of life.Truly it is the water,that which pours,and the one who drinks.All three become one whenyour talisman is shattered.That oneness you can’t knowby reasoning.
You personify God’s message.
There is nothing in the universe that you are notEverything you want, look for it within yourself-you are that.
The Springtime Of Lovers Has Come
The springtime of Lovers has come,that this dust bowl may become a garden;the proclamation of heaven has come,that the bird of the soul may rise in flight.The sea becomes full of pearls,the salt marsh becomes sweet as kauthar,the stone becomes a ruby from the mine,the body becomes wholly soul.
What Was Told, That
What was said to the rose that made it open was saidto me here in my chest. What was told the cypress that made it strongand straight, what was whispered the jasmine so it is what it is, whatever madesugarcane sweet, whatever was said to the inhabitants of the town of Chigil inTurkestan that makes…
When The Rose Is Gone
When the rose is gone and the garden fadedyou will no longer hear the nightingale’s song.The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil.The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing.If love withholds its strengthening care,the lover is left like a bird without care,the lover is left like a bird without wings.How will I…
It is the rule with drunkards to fall upon each other,
The lover is even worse than a drunkard.I will tell you what love is: to enter a mine of gold.And what is that gold?The lover is a king above all kings,unafraid of death, not at all interested in a golden crown.The dervish has a pearl concealed under his patched cloak.Why should he go begging door…
If you want what visible reality
can give, you’re an employee.
If you want the unseen world,
you’re not living your truth.
Both wishes are foolish,
but you’ll be forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is
love’s confusing joy.
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One day you will look back and laugh at yourself.
How did I ever forget the truth?How ridiculous to believe that sadness and sicknessAre anything other than bad dreams.’
Sonnet Lxxvi by William Shakespeare
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,So far from variation or quick change?Why with the time do I not glance asideTo new-found methods and to compounds strange?Why write I still all one, ever the same,And keep invention in a noted weed,That every word doth almost tell my name,Showing their birth and where they…
Come, come, awaken all true drunkards!
O cupbearer of the Eternal Wine,Draw it now from Eternity’s Jar!This wine doesn’t run down the throatBut it looses torrents of words!Cupbearer, make my soul fragrant as musk,This noble soul of mine that knows the Invisible!Pour out the wine for the morning drinkers!Pour them this subtle and priceless musk!Pass it around to everyone in the…
Sonnet Cxv by William Shakespeare
Those lines that I before have writ do lie,Even those that said I could not love you dearer:Yet then my judgment knew no reason whyMy most full flame should afterwards burn clearer.But reckoning time, whose million’d accidentsCreep in ‘twixt vows and change decrees of kings,Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp’st intents,Divert strong minds to the…
Sonnet Cxlv by William Shakespeare
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not pressMy tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;Lest sorrow lend me words and words expressThe manner of my pity-wanting pain.If I might teach thee wit, better it were,Though not to love, yet, love, to tell me so;As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,No news but health…
I gaze into the heart, lowly it may be,
For the heart is all the substance,The speech an accident.How many phrases will you speak,Too many for me.How much burning, burning will you feel,Be friendly with the fire, enough for me.Light up the fire of love inside,And blaze the thoughts away.