love

Looking at my life

I see that only love

Has been my soul’s companion

From deep inside

My soul cries out:

Do not wait, surrender

For the sake of Love.

gamble everything for love

Gamble everything for love.

If you are a true human being.

If not, leave this gathering.

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty.

You set out to find God, but then you keep

stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses.

Don't wait any longer.

Dive in the ocean, leave and let the

sea be you.

Silent, absent, walking an empty road.. all praise.

Let Me be Mad

O incomparable Giver of life, cut reason loose at last!

Let it wander grey-eyed from vanity to vanity.

Shatter open my skull, pour in it the wine of madness!

Let me be mad, as You; mad with You, with us.

Beyond the sanity of fools is a burning desert

Where Your sun is whirling in every atom:

Beloved, drag me there, let me roast in Perfection!

no fear

I have no fear of myths , nor satan

Not of blasphemy , or judgment

I have no fear of hell or despair

Destructions today or tomorrow

Nor I am afraid of drinking from a jar of wine

I know you better than you think you know god

and I know god better than I know you !

God is removed from everything

He doesn't even want to be a god !

A tool for your purpose ,

he doesn't want to be

A mirror of your horror

he doesn't wish to be so!

I fear him not ..

nor fear my own thoughts

The only fear I have in this world

is causing trouble to a single soul

I am not at war with anyone.

Nor anyone at war with me

Now , you tell me moses ,

who is more disturbed minded , you or I ?

I have no fear of myths , nor satan

Not of blasphemy , or judgment

I have no fear of hell or despair

Destructions today or tomorrow

Or drinking from a jar of wine

I know you better than you think you know god

and I know god better than I know you

where everything is music.

Don’t worry about saving these songs!

And if one of our instruments breaks,

it doesn’t matter.

We have fallen into the place

where everything is music.

The strumming and the flute notes

rise into the atmosphere,

and even if the whole world’s harp

should burn up, there will still be

hidden instruments playing.

So the candle flickers and goes out.

We have a piece of flint, and a spark.

This singing-art is sea foam.

The graceful movements come from a pearl

somewhere on the ocean floor.

Poems reach up like the edge of driftwood

along the beach, wanting and wanting!

They derive

from a slow and powerful root

that we can’t see.

Stop the words now.

Open the window in the center of your chest,

and let the spirits fly in and out.

garden of love

The garden of

Love

is green without

limit

and yields many

fruits

other than sorrow

and joy.

Love is beyond either

condition:

without spring,

without autumn,

it is always fresh.

intention

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there

poor copies

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Poor copies out of heaven's originals,

Pale earthly pictures mouldering to decay,

What care although your beauties break and fall,

When that which gave them life endures for aye?

Oh never vex thine heart with idle woes:

All high discourse enchanting the rapt ear,

All gilded landscapes and brave glistering shows

Fade-perish, but it is not as we fear.

Whilst far away the living fountains ply,

each petty brook goes brimful to the main

Since baron nor fountain can for ever die,

Thy fears how foolish, thy lament how vain!

What is this fountain, wouldst thou rightly know?

The Soul whence issue all created things.

Doubtless the rivers shall not cease to flow,

Till silenced are the everlasting springs.

Farewell to sorrow, and with quiet mind

Drink long and deep: let others fondly deem

The channel empty they perchance may find,

Or fathom that unfathomable stream.

The moment thou to this low world wast given,

A ladder stood whereby thou might'st aspire;

And first thy steps, which upward still have striven,

From mineral mounted to the plant; then higher

To animal existence; next, the Man,

With knowledge, reason, faith. Oh wondrous goal!

This body, which a crumb of dust began-

How fairly fashioned the consummate whole!

Yet stay not here thy journey: thou shalt grow

An angel bright and home far off in heaven.

Plod on, plunge last in the great Sea, that so

Thy little drop make oceans seven times seven.

'The Son of God!' Nay, leave that word unsaid,

Say: 'God is One, the pure, the single Truth.'

What though thy frame be withered, old, and dead,

If the soul keep her fresh immortal youth?

i'll meet you there

keep walking

keep walking

though there's no place to get to !

don't try to see through the distances,

that's not for human beings..

move within but don't move the way

fear makes you move

cloud cover

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,

no light and no land anywhere,

cloud cover thick.

I try to stay

just above the surface,

yet I'm already under

and living with the ocean

my burning heart

My heart is burning with love

All can see this flame

My heart is pulsing with passion

like waves on an ocean

my friends have become strangers

and I’m surrounded by enemies

But I’m free as the wind
no longer hurt by those who reproach me

I’m at home wherever I am

And in the room of lovers

I can see with closed eyes
the beauty that dances

Behind the veils
intoxicated with love
I too dance the rhythm
of this moving world

I have lost my senses
in my world of lovers

infinite love

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.

The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.

Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,

The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

lift me up

Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky

And you lift me up out of the two worlds.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops,

So your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud

insanity

I have lived on the lip
of insanity,
wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door.
It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside!

spiritual window-shoppers

These spiritual window-shoppers,
who idly ask, 'How much is that?' Oh, I'm just looking.
They handle a hundred items and put them down,
shadows with no capital.

What is spent is love and two eyes wet with weeping.
But these walk into a shop,
and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment,
in that shop.

Where did you go? "Nowhere."
What did you have to eat? "Nothing much."

Even if you don't know what you want,
buy _something,_ to be part of the exchanging flow.

Start a huge, foolish project,
like Noah.

It makes absolutely no difference
what people think of you.

Rumi, 'We Are Three', Mathnawi VI, 831-845

say i'm you

I am dust particles in sunlight.
I am the round sun.

To the bits of dust I say, Stay.
To the sun, Keep moving.

I am morning mist,
and the breathing of evening.
I am wind in the top of a grove,
and surf on the cliff.

Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,
I am also the coral reef they founder on.

I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.
Silence, thought, and voice.

The musical air coming through a flute,
a spark of stone, a flickering in metal.
Both candle and the moth crazy around it.
Rose, and the nightingale lost in the fragrance.

I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,
the evolutionary intelligence, the lift, and the falling away.

What is, and what isn't.

You who know, Jelaluddin,
You the one in all, say who I am.
Say I am you.

the way of quest

On the way of quest, the sane and insane are one.
On the way of love, relatives and strangers are one.
Whom the wine of the beloved's union was given,
In his religion, the Ka'ba and the idol-temple are one.

insomnia

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.

When you're not here,

I can't go to sleep.

Praise God for those two insomnias!!

And the difference between them.."