Rumi

They will drink until they cantear away the veils of intellect andmelt away the layers of shame and modesty.When in Love,body, mind, heart and soul don’t even exist.Become this,fall in Love, and you will not be separated again.

And this grand life of mine was nothing but an excuse.You’ve been hearing my story so patiently for a lifetimeNow hear this: it was nothing but a fairy tale.

How did I ever forget the truth?How ridiculous to believe that sadness and sicknessAre anything other than bad dreams.’

true love is for the treasure,not for the coffer that contains it.’The real beloved is that one who is unique,who is your beginning and your end.When you find that one,you’ll no longer expect anything else:that is both the manifest and the mystery.That one is the lord of states of feeling,dependent on none;month and year are…

Before the fattener-up of all who are lean, I drag this so emaciated body;Though they expel me from two hundred cities, I bear it for the sake of the love of a prince;Though my shop and house be laid waste, I bear it in fidelity to a tulip bed.God’s love is a very strong fortress;…

When stars wheelaround the North Pole,they are longing for our growing consciousness.Wine got drunk with us,not the other way.The body developed out of us, not we from it.We are bees,and our body is a honeycomb.We madethe body, cell by cell we made it.translated by Robert Bly

first step, to renounce feet;To disregard this world, to see only that which you yourself have seen I said,‘Heart, congratulations on entering the circle of lovers,‘On gazing beyond the range of the eye,on running into the alley of the breasts.’Whence came this breath, O heart?Whence came this throbbing, O heart?Bird, speak the tongue of birds:…

Love says,I will win him with my silence.Soul says,How can I ever win himWhen all I have is already his?He does not want, he does not worry,He does not seek a sublime state of euphoria –How then can I win himWith sweet wine or gold?He is not bound by the senses –How then can I…

If knowledge of mysteries come afteremptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

So powerfulI fell to the groundYour lovehas made me sureI am ready to forsakethis worldly lifeand surrenderto the magnificenceof your Being