I gaze into the heart, lowly it may be,

The soul says to the heart, “Go, do not laugh at me and yourself.What is there that is not his, that I may beguile himthereby?”He is not sorrowful and anxious and seeking oblivion that Imay beguile him with wine and a heavy measure.The arrow of his glance needs not a bow that I should beguilethe…

Tie together all human intellects.They won’t stretch to here.The sky bares its neck so beautifully,but gets no kiss. Only a taste.This is the food that everyone wants,wandering the wilderness, ‘Please give usYour manna and quail.’We’re here again with the Beloved.This air, a shout. These meadowsounds,an astonishing myth.We’ve come into the Presence of the Onewho was…

With love dregs settle into clarity.With love suffering ceases.Love brings the dead back to life.Love transforms the King into a slave.Love is the consummation of Gnosis.How could a fool sit on such a throne?

You have been interestedin your shadow. Look instead directly at the sun.What can we know by justwatching the time-and-space shapes of each other?Someone half awake in the night sees imaginary dangers;the morning star rises; the horizon growsdefined; people become friends in a moving caravan.Night birds may thinkdaybreak a kind of darkness, becausethat’s all they know.It’s…