Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.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 awayat the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one.Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.

A lover asked his beloved,Do you love yourself more than you love me?Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you.I've disappeared from myself and my attributes,I am present only for you.I've forgotten all my learnings,but from knowing you I've become a scholar.I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able.I love myself...I love you.I love you...I love myself.

I am so small I can barely be seen.How can this great love be inside me?Look at your eyes, they are small but theysee enormous things.

You were born with potential

You were born with goodness and trust

You were born with ideals and dreams

You were born with greatness

You were born with wings

You are not meant for crawling, so don't

You have wings

Learn to use them and fly!

Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for?Your beloved is right here. She lives in your own neighborhood.Her face is veiled. She hides behind screens calling for you,while you search and lose yourself in the wilderness and the desert.Cease looking for flowers, there blooms a garden in your own home.While you go looking for trinkets, your treasure house awaits youin your own being. There is no need for suffering, God is here!

We are the mirror as well as the face in it.We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.We are pain and what cures pain both.We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.I want to hold you close like a lute so we can cry out with loving.You would rather throw stones at a mirror?I am your mirror, and here are the stones.

You bewilder us with your grace,all evils transformed into goodness.You are the master alchemist.You light the fire of love in Earth and Sky,in heart and soul of every being.Through your loving,existence and non-existence merge.All opposites unite.All that is profane becomes sacred again.

Is it your face that adorns this garden?Is it your fragrance that intoxicates this garden?Is it your Spirit that has made this brook a river of wine?Hundreds have looked for you, and died searching in this garden,where you hide behind the scenes.But this pain is not for those who come as lovers.You are easy to find here.You are in the breeze and in this river of wine.

In love...nothing is eternal, but drinking your wine.There is no reason for bringing my life to you,other than losing it. I said, I just want to know you,and then disappear. She said, knowing me does not mean dying.

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 keepstopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses.Don't wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, leave and let thesea be you. Silent, absent, walking an empty road, all praise.

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 approach me.I'm at home, wherever I am. And in the room of lovers I can see with closed eyesthe beauty that dances. Behind the veils intoxicated with love, I too dance the rhythmof this moving world. I have lost my senses in this world of lovers.

Look at me and hear me,because I am here...just for that!

I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water too.I have come all this way eager for you,without shoes or shawl.I want you to laugh, to kill all your worries, to love you, to nourish you.Oh sweet bitterness, I will soothe you and heal you.I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

This is how I would die into the love I have for you:As pieces of cloud dissolve in Sunlight.

A lover knows only humility, he has no choice.He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice.He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice.In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains ofhis imprisonment, he has no choice.

The sky was lit by the splendor of the moon,so powerful I fell to the ground.Your love has made me sureI am ready to forsake this worldly lifeand surrender to the magnificence of your being.

I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love.Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars.You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love.Even so, you have always been connected to me.Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest.I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond,I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me,leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.

You come to us from another world,from beyond the stars and the void of space.Transcendent, pure, of unimaginable beauty.Bringing with you the essence of love.You transform all who are touched by you.Mundane concerns, troubles and sorrows dissolve in your presence,bringing joy to ruler and ruled, to peasant and King.

You arouse me with your touch, although I can't see your hands.You have kissed me with tenderness, although I haven't seen your lips.You are hidden from me, but it is you who keeps me alive.Perhaps the time will come, when you will tire of kisses,I shall be happy even from insults from you.I only ask that you keep some attention on me.

Because the idol is your face,I have become an idolater.Because the wine is from your cup,I've become a drunkard.In the existence of your love,I have become non-existent.This non-existence, linked to you,is better than all existence.

I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next,did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story. My place is the placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as oneand that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner,only that breath breathing human being.

The moon has become a dancer at this festival of love.This dance of light, this sacred blessing, this divine lovebeckons us to a world beyond, that only lovers can see with theireyes of fiery passion. They are the chosen ones who have surrendered. Once they were particles of light, now they are the radiant sun.They have left behind the world of defeat-full games.They are the privileged lovers who created new worldswith their eyes of fiery passion.

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty,and wish to see you with a hundred eyes....I am in the house of mercy,and my heart is a place of prayer.

Love is the Water of Life.RumiLet the beauty of what you love be what you do.RumiBecause of loveI have becomethe giver of light.RumiIt is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also.RumiI am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you.RumiSpeak a new languageso that the worldwill be a new world.RumiYou were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?RumiThere is some kiss we want with our whole lives,the touch of spirit on the body.RumiI am in Love with Loveand Love is in love with me.My body is in Love with the souland the soul is in Love with my body.I opened my arms to Loveand Love embraced me like a lover.RumiGamble everything for love,if youre a true human being.RumiEvery object, every being,is a jar full of delight.RumiThe way you make loveis the way God will be with you.RumiLove rests on no foundation.It is an endless ocean,with no beginning or end.RumiOh, my friend,all that you see of meis just a shell,and the rest belongs to love.RumiThis divine love,beckons usto a world beyondonly lovers can seewith their eyes of fiery passion.RumiDear God,Let all Lovers be contentGive them happy endingsLet their lives be celebrationLet their hearts dance in the fire of your Love.RumiThe 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 to door?RumiWhatever pearl you seek,look for the pearl within the pearl!RumiOnly from the heart Can you touch the sky.RumiThrough Love all that is bitter will be sweetThrough Love all that is copper will be gold.Through Love all dregs will turn to purest wineThrough Love all pain will turn to medicine.Through Love the dead will all become alive.Through Love the king will turn into a slave!RumiThe moon has become a dancerat this festival of love.RumiLove is the One who masters all things;I am mastered totally by Love.RumiThey will ask youwhat you have produced.Say to them,except for Love,what else can a Lover produce?RumiFrom the beginning of my life, I have been looking for your face,but today, Ive seen it.Today I have seen the charm, the beauty, the unfathomablegrace of the face that I was looking for.RumiI am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty and wishto see you with a hundred eyes.RumiMy heart has burned with passion and has searched forever forthis wondrous beauty that I now behold.RumiSilence is an ocean. Speech is a river.RumiKnow that my beloved is hidden from everyoneKnow that she is beyond the belief of all beliefsKnow that in my heart she is as clear as the MOONKnow that she is the life in my body and in my soul.RumiOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,there is a field. Ill meet you there.RumiYou must marry your soul. That wedding is the way.RumiYou knock at the door of Reality.You shake your thought-wings, loosenyour shouldersand open.RumiThere is something in usThat has nothing to do with night and day,Diamonds which come from no earthly mine.RumiIf the sun were not in love, he would have no brightness,the side of the hill no grass on it.The ocean would come to rest somewhere.RumiThis is the prayer of each:You are the source of my life.You separate essence from mud.You honor my soul.You bring rivers from themountain springs.You brighten my eyes.The wine you offertakes me out of myselfinto the self we share.Doing that is religion.RumiI was youand never knew it.RumiWhen you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.RumiEverything in the universe is within you.Ask all from yourself.RumiThis is love: to fly toward a secret sky,to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.First, to let go of life.In the end, to take a step without feet.RumiCome, come, whoever you are.Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving, it doesnt matter.Ours is not a caravan of despair.Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times.Come, yet again, come, come.RumiInscribed on Rumis shrine in Konya, Turkey.The heart has its own language.The heart knows a hundred thousandways to speak.RumiHeart and love have become friends.RumiWherever you are,and whatever you do,be in love.RumiLet yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.RumiThe universe and the light of the stars come through me.RumiAnd from beyond the intellect, beautiful Lovecomes dragging her skirts, a cup of wine in her hand.RumiClose both eyesto see with the other eye.RumiThis outward Spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.RumiEveryone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.RumiThe fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.RumiThe ruby and the sunrise are one.RumiWhy do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.RumiFriends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.RumiThe beauty of the heartis the lasting beauty:its lips give to drinkof the water of life.RumiLove said to me,there is nothing that is not me.Be silent.RumiI worship the moon.Tell me of the soft glow of acandle lightand the sweetness of my moon.RumiOh Beloved,take me.Liberate my soul.Fill me with your love andrelease me from the two worlds.If I set my heart on anything but youlet fire burn me from inside.Oh Beloved,take away what I want.Take away what I do.Take away what I need.Take away everythingthat takes me from you.RumiIn the early dawn of happinessyou gave me three kissesso that I would wake upto this moment of love.RumiLove is that that never sleeps, nor even rests,nor stays for long with those that do.Love is language that cannot be said,or heard.RumiLet us fall in love againand scatter gold dust all over the world.RumiThere is no salvation for the soulbut to fall in Love.Only lovers can escapeout of these two worlds.This was ordained in creation.Only from the heartcan you reach the sky:The Rose of Glorycan grow only from the heart.RumiThere is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.O traveler, if you are in search of thatDont look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.RumiWe come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.RumiGod turns you from one feeling to anotherAnd teaches by the means of opposites,so that you will have two wings to fly,Not one.RumiSit only under a treethat is full of blossoms.RumiBecome the Light.RumiThe idol of your self is the mother of all idols.RumiIf you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.RumiIf you dig a pit for others to fall into,you will fall into it yourself.RumiNo mirror ever became iron again;No bread ever became wheat;No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.Become the light.RumiWe rarely hear the inward music,but were all dancing to it neverthelessdirected by the one who teaches us,the pure joy of the sun,our music master.RumiRemember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.RumiBut knowing dependson the time spent looking!RumiBe melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.RumiThere is a candle in your heart,ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul,ready to be filled.You feel it, dont you?RumiLet the beauty of what you love be what you do.RumiI was a secret treasure of kindness and generosity,and I wished this treasure to be known,so I created a mirror: its shining face, the heart;its darkened back, the world;The back would please you if youve never seen the face.RumiIn the orchard and rose gardenI long to see your face.In the taste of SweetnessI long to kiss your lips.In the shadows of passionI long for your love.RumiYou are the Essence of the Essence,The intoxication of Love.I long to sing your praisesbut stand mutewith the agony of wishing in my heart.RumiDo not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.RumiThe real beloved is your beginning and your end.When you find that one,youll no longer expect anything else.RumiOf the book of GodThou art a copying,A mirror, wherein showedThe beauty of the King.All God ever wroughtDwelleth not apart;All thou hast ever sought,Find it in thy heart.RumiThose who dont feel this Lovepulling them like a river,those who dont drink dawnlike a cup of spring wateror take in sunset like supper,those who dont want to change,let them sleep.RumiWithpassion pray. Withpassion work. With passion make love.With passion eat and drink and dance and play.Why look like a dead fishin this oceanofGod?RumiWho looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?I cannot stop asking.RumiAll 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, Im sure of that,And I intend to end up there.RumiThe Lover comes, the Lover comes!Open the way for him!Hes looking for a heart,Lets show him one.I screamWhat you come to hunt is me!He says laughingly,Im here not to hunt you but to save you.RumiDance, when youre broken open.Dance, if youve torn the bandage off.Dance in the middle of the fighting.Dance in your blood.Dance, when youre perfectly free.RumiFrom the beginning of my lifeI have been looking for your facebut today I have seen itToday I have seenthe charm, the beauty,the unfathomable graceof the facethat I was looking for.RumiI am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty,and wish to see you with a hundred eyes.I am in the house of mercy,and my heart is a place of prayer.RumiIn my vertigo, in my dizziness, in my drunken haze,whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel,I saw myself as the source of existence,I was there at the beginning and I was the spirit of love.RumiBut learnthis customfrom the flower:silenceyour tongue.RumiThe garden of Love is green without limitand yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy.Love is beyond either condition:without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.RumiBurdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.RumiYour hand opens and closes and opens and closes.If it were always a fist or always stretched open,you would be paralyzed.Your deepest presenceis in every small contracting and expanding,the two as beautifully balanced and coordinatedas bird wings.RumiYour bright face is my dayYour dark curls bring the nightIf you do not let me near youI promise not go to sleep nor riseYour magnificence has made me a wonderYour charm has taught me the way of loveI am the progeny of AbrahamIll find my way through fire.RumiIn the body of the world, they say, there is a souland you are that.RumiI would love to kiss you.The price of kissing is your life.Now my loving is running toward my life shouting,What a bargain, lets buy it.RumiLate by myself, in the boat by myselfNo light and no land anywherecloud cover thick, I try to stayjust above the surface, but I am already underand living in the ocean of your love.RumiSince I was cut from the reedbed,I have made this crying sound.Anyone apart from someone he lovesunderstands what I say.Anyone pulled from a sourcelongs to go back.RumiIs it your facethat adorns the garden?Is it your fragrancethat intoxicates this garden?Is it your spiritthat has made this brooka river of wine?RumiTo Love is to reach God.RumiThere is a candle in your heart,ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul,ready to be filled.You feel it, dont you?RumiA roses rarest essence lives in the thorn.RumiThere are amazing things in the ocean,and there is one who is the ocean.RumiLet the beauty we love be what we do.There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.RumiThere is no Love greater than Love with no object.For then you, yourself, have become love itself.RumiBecause of your loveI have lost my sobrietyI am intoxicatedby the madness of love.RumiIn the gardenI see only your faceFrom trees and blossomsI inhale only your fragrance.RumiDrunk with the ecstasy of loveI can no longer tell the differencebetweeen drunkard and drinkBetween lover and Beloved.RumiThats how you came here, like a starwithout a name. Move across the night skywith those anonymous lights.RumiBecause the idol is your face,I have become an idolater.Because the wine is from your cup,Ive become a drunkard.In the existence of your love,I have become non-existent.This non-existence, linked to you,is better than all existence.RumiMany hearts have sought refuge from this love,but it drags and pulls them to its own refuge.RumiLove so needs to love,that it will endure almost anything,even abuse,just to flicker for a moment.RumiI died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as plant and rose to animal,I died as animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?RumiAre you searching for the river of your soul?Then come out of your prison.Leave the streamand join the riverthat flows into the ocean.RumiLove is reckless; not reason.Reason seeks a profit.Having died of self-interest,Love risks everything and asks for nothing.RumiThe minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers dont finally meet somewhere,theyre in each other all along.RumiMy place is the Placeless, my trace is Traceless,Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the BelovedRumiYou were born with potentialYou were born with goodness and trustYou were born with ideals and dreamsYou were born with greatnessYou were born with wingsYou are not meant for crawling, so dont.You have wingsLearn to use them, and fly.RumiI long to escape the prison of my egoand lose myself in you.RumiA moment of happiness,you and I sitting on the verandah,apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.We feel the flowing water of life here,you and I, with the gardens beautyand the birds singing.RumiThat which God said to the rose,and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,He said to my heart,and made it a hundred times more beautiful.RumiFrom the clear center of my heartthere are no edges to my loving youIve heard it said theres a window that opensfrom one mind to anotherbut if there were no wall,what need of installing a window?RumiIf the wind had taken me to you,I would have held tight to the skirts of the wind.I miss you so much that I would fly to you faster than a bird;But how can a bird with a clipped wing fly?RumiThere comes a holyand transparent timewhen every touchof beautyopens the heartto tears.This is the timethe Beloved of heavenis brought tenderly on earth.This is the timeof the openingof the Rose.RumiRemember any night of all of our nightsbut dont remember things Ive said.RumiWhat was whispered to the roseTo break it openLast nightWas whispered to my heart.RumiStop learning.Start knowing.The rose opensAnd opensAnd when it fallsFalls outward.RumiSilenceYou are the diamond in methe Jewel of my real wealth!From your soft earthgrow thousandsof rose gardenswhose perfumesdrown mein my heart.RumiI was deadI came aliveI was tearsI became laughterall because of love.Rumilove saidyou are a candleattracting everyonegathering every onearound you.Rumilove saidyou already haveyour own wingsI will not give youmore feathers.RumiMy heart is burning with loveAll can see this flameMy heart is pulsing with passionlike waves on an ocean.RumiIm at home wherever I amAnd in the room of loversI can see with closed eyesthe beauty that dances.RumiBehind the veilsintoxicated with loveI too dance the rhythmof this moving worldI have lost my sensesin my world of lovers.RumiLove 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.RumiSuddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.Seeing and holding the lockets of her hairMy face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.RumiWhen I am with you, we stay up all night,When youre not here, I cant get to sleep.Praise God for these two insomnias!And the difference between them.RumiI have phrases and whole pages memorized,but nothing can be told of love.You must wait until you and Iare living together.In the conversation well havethenbe patientthen.RumiWhen the sweet glance of my true love caught my eyes,Like alchemy, it transformed my copper-like soul.I searched for Him with a thousand hands,He stretched out His arms and clutched my feet.#RumiThere is a smile and a gentlenessinside. When I learned the nameand address of that, I went to whereyou sell perfume. I begged you notto trouble me so with longing. Comeout and play! Flirt more naturally.Teach me how to kiss. On the grounda spread blanket, flame thats caughtand burning well, cumin seeds browning,I am inside all of this with my soul.RumiLet the lover be disgraceful, crazy,absentminded. Someone soberwill worry about things going badly.Let the lover be.RumiWhen your chest is free of your limiting ego,Then you will see the ageless Beloved.You can not see yourself without a mirror;Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror.RumiWe are the mirror as well as the face in it.We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.We are pain and what cures pain both.We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.RumiI want to hold you close like a lute so we can cry out with loving.You would rather throw stones at a mirror?I am your mirror, and here are the stones.RumiYou bewilder us with your grace,all evils transformed into goodness.You are the master alchemist.You light the fire of love in Earth and Sky,in heart and soul of every being.Through your loving,existence and non-existence merge.All opposites unite.All that is profane becomes sacred again.RumiWhen its cold and raining,you are more beautiful.And the snow brings meeven closer to your lips.The inner secret, that which was never born,you are that freshness, and I am with you now.I cant explain the goings,or the comings. You enter suddenly,and I am nowhere again.Inside the majesty.RumiWhen you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for one breath,In that moment you will find your true destiny.Alas, dont spoil this precious momentMoments like this are very, very rare.RumiAnd just the momentwhen you are all confusedleaps forth a voicehold me closeIm love andIm always yours.RumiBoth light and shadow are the dance of Love.Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of Gods secrets.Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless.Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.RumiA lover knows only humility, he has no choice.He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice.He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, dont fret,he has no choice.In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment,he has no choice.RumiA lover asked his beloved: Do you love yourself more than you love me?Beloved replied: I have died to myself and I live for you.Ive disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you.Ive forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you Ive become a scholar.Ive lost all my strength, but from your power I am able.I love myselfI love you.I love youI love myself.RumiI am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love.Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars.You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love.Even so, you have always been connected to me.Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest.I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond,I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me,leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.RumiYou have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood.Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance.Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.RumiI desire you more than food or drink.My body my senses my mind hunger for your taste.I can sense your presence in my heart although you belong to all the world.I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.RumiI am so small I can barely be seen.How can this great love be inside me?Look at your eyes. They are small,But they see enormous things.RumiOh lovers, where are you going?Who are you looking for?Your beloved is right here.She lives in your own neighborhood.Her face is veiled.She hides behind screens calling for you,while you search and lose yourselfin the wilderness and the desert.Cease looking for flowers,there blooms a garden in your own home.While you go looking for trinkets,your treasure house awaits youin your own being.There is no need for suffering, God is here!RumiIn lovenothing is eternal, but drinking your wine.There is no reason for bringing my life to you,other than losing it. I said, I just want to know you,and then disappear. She said, knowing me does not mean dying.RumiThis is how I would die into the love I have for you:As pieces of cloud dissolve in Sunlight.RumiLook at me and hear me,because I am herejust for that!RumiOh God! I have discovered love!How marvelous! How good!How beautiful it is! My body is warm from the heat of this love.RumiIn love, nothing is eternal but drinking your wine,There is no reason for bringing my life to you,other then losing it.I said I just want to know you, and then disappearShe said,Knowing me does not mean dyingRumiThe moon has become a dancerat this festival of love.This dance of light,This sacred blessing,This divine love,beckons usto a world beyondonly lovers can seewith their eyes of fiery passion.They are the chosen oneswho have surrendered.Once they were particles of lightnow they are the radiant sun.They have left behindthe world of deceitful games.They are the privileged loverswho create a new worldwith their eyes of burning passion.RumiMy heart is on fireIn my madness I roam the desertThe flames of my passiondevour the wind and the skyMy cries of longingMy wails of sorrowAre tormenting my soulYou wait patientlyLooking into my intoxicated eyesYou accept my passionwith the serenity of LoveYou are the Master of ExistenceOne day I shall be a Lover like YouRumiSince you will comeand throw kissesat my tombstone laterwhy not give them to me nowthis is methat same person.RumiThe sky was litby the splendor of the moonSo powerfulI fell to the groundYour lovehas made me sureI am ready to forsakethis worldly lifeand surrender to the magnificenceof your Being.RumiOh lovers, where are you going?Who are you looking for?Your beloved is right here.RumiCease looking for flowers,there blooms a garden in your own home.RumiMy love for you has driven me insaneI wander aimlessly the ruins of my life, my old self a stranger to meBecause of your love I have broken with my pastMy longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courageI look for you in my innermost being.RumiDie, die, die in this love.If you die in this love your soul will be renewed.RumiYou come to us from another worldFrom beyond the stars and void of space.Transcendent. Pure. Of unimaginable beauty.Bringing with you the essence of Love.You transform all who are touched by you.Mundane concerns, troubles and sorrowsDissolve in your presence.Bringing joy to ruler and ruled. To peasant and king.RumiTonight is a night of union for the stars and of scattering,scattering, since a bride is coming from the skies, consisting of a full moon.RumiYou amuse me with your touchalthough I cant see your hands.You have kissed me with tendernessalthough I havent seen your lipsYou are hidden from me.But it is you who keeps me alivePerhaps the time will comewhen you will tire of kissesI shall be happyeven for insults from youI only ask that youkeep some attention on me.RumiThirst drove me down to the waterwhere I drank the moons reflection.RumiThe agony of loversburns with the fire of passion.Lovers leave traces of where theyve been.The wailing of broken heartsis the doorway to God.RumiThe wine we really drink is our own blood.Our bodies ferment in these barrels.We give everything for a glass of this.We give our minds for a sip.RumiMy sweet heart,you have aroused my passion,your touch has filled me with desire,I am no longer separate from you,these are precious moments,I beseech you,dont let me wait,let me merge with you.RumiCome to the orchid in Spring.There is light and wine, and sweetheartsin the pomegranate flowers.If you do not come, these do not matter.If you do come, these do not matter.RumiI do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next,did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story.My place is the placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul.I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as oneand that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner,only that breath breathing human being.RumiI was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.RumiNightingales are put in cagesbecause their songs give pleasure.Whoever heard of keeping a crow?RumiMost people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.RumiPale sunlight,pale the wall.Love moves away.The light changes.I need more gracethan I thought.RumiI burn each second of my life to love,Each second of my life burns out, in love,In each leaping second, love lives afresh.RumiI have a thirsty fish in methat can never find enoughof what its thirsty for!RumiA house of love with no limits,a presence more beautiful than venus or the moon,a beauty whose image fills the mirror of the heart.RumiWe are the night ocean filledWith glints of light. We are the spaceBetween the fish and the moon,While we sit here together.RumiIve torn the cloth to shredsand thrown it away.If youre not completely naked,wrap your beautiful robe of wordsaround you,and sleep.RumiThere is only one way to win him,this Beloved of mine -Become his.RumiThe 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 diamond from the mine,the body becomes wholly soul.RumiWith Your sweet Soul, this soul of minehas merged as water does with wine.Who can part the water from the wine,or me from You when we combine?You have become my greater self;how can smallness limit me?Youve taken on my being,how shall I not take on Yours?Forever, You have claimed methat forever I may know Youre mine.RumiYour love has pierced me to the depths,its ecstasy entwines both bone and nerve.RumiO Sun, fill our house once more with light!Make happy all your friends and blind your foes!Rise from behind the hill, transform the stonesTo rubies and the sour grapes to wine!O Sun, make our vineyard fresh again,And fill the steppes with houris and green cloaks!Physician of the lovers, heavens lamp!Rescus the lovers! Help the suffering!Show but your face the world is filled with light!But if you cover it, its the darkest night!RumiI said,O sweet beloved,you are the refuge of my soul.He said, If you belong to me,dont talk of your own soul.I said, Why do you cut mewith your sharp words?He said, My words wouldnt hurt youif you werent in love with yourself.RumiBeating your wings and feathers,you broke free from this cage.Rising up to the skyyou attained the world of the soul.RumiO heart, what a wonderful bird you are.Seeking divine heights,Flapping your wings,you smashed the pointed spears of your enemy.RumiThe breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.Dont go back to sleep.You must ask for what you really want.Dont go back to sleep.People are going back and forth across the doorsillwhere the two worlds touch.The door is round and open.Dont go back to sleep.Ruminever lose hopewhen the Belovedsends you away.If youre abandonedif youre left hopelesstomorrow for sureyoull be called again.If the door is shutright in your facekeep waiting with patiencedont leave right away.Seeing your patienceyour love will soonsummon you with graceraise you like a champion.RumiShould Loves heart rejoice unless I burn?For my heart is Loves dwelling.If You will burn Your house, burn it, Love!Who will say, Its not allowed?Burn this house thoroughly!The lovers house improves with fire.From now on I will make burning my aim,From now on I will make burning my aim,for I am like the candle: burning only makes me brighter.Abandon sleep tonight; traverse fro one nightthe region of the sleepless.Look upon these lovers who have become distraughtand like moths have died in union with the One Beloved.Look upon this ship of Gods creaturesand see how it is sunk in Love.RumiSometimes I wonder, sweetest love, if youWere a mere dream in along winter night,A dream of spring-days, and of golden lightWhich sheds its rays upon a frozen heart;A dream of wine that fills the drunken eye.And so I wonder, sweetest love, if IShould drink this ruby wine, or rather weep;Each tear a bezel with your face engraved,A rosary to memorize your nameThere are so many ways to call you back-Yes, even if you only were a dream.RumiOnce a beloved asked her lover: Friend,You have seen many places in the world!Now which of all these cities was the best?He said: The city where my sweetheart lives!RumiFrom myself I am copper,through You, friend, I am gold.From myself Im a stone, butthrough You I am a gem!RumiLover whispers to my ear,Better to be a prey than a hunter.Make yourself My fool.Stop trying to be the sun and become a speck!Dwell at My door and be homeless.Dont pretend to be a candle, be a moth,so you may taste the savor of Lifeand know the power hidden in serving.RumiI believe in loveI swear by lovebelieve me my lovehow longlike a prisoner of griefcan I beg for mercy.RumiShow me your faceI craveflowers and gardensopen your lipsI cravethe taste of honeycome out frombehind the cloudsI desire a sunny face.Rumiin every breathif youre the centerof your own desiresyoull lose the graceof your belovedbut if in every breathyou blow awayyour self claimthe ecstasy of lovewill soon arrive.Rumiin every breathif youre the centerof your own thoughtsthe sadness of autumnwill fall on youbut if in every breathyou strip nakedjust like a winterthe joy of springwill grow from within.Rumiall your unfulfilled desiresare from your greedfor gain of fulfillmentslet go of them alland they will be sent as gifts.Rumifall in love withthe agony of lovenot the ecstasythen the belovedwill fall in love with you.RumiA true Lover doesnt follow any one religion,be sure of that.Since in the religion of Love,there is no irreverence or faith.When in Love,body, mind, heart and soul dont even exist.Become this,fall in Love,and you will not be separated again.RumiBefore coming to this world we were in heaven.We were friends of the angels.There is our real homeland, and we will return to it.RumiI will soothe you and heal you.I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.RumiYou twist my heart, dwell in my mindand fill my eyes, you are my joyI cant be without you.You are my sleep, my rest, the water I drink.You are my clarity, my dignity, my worldI cant be without you.RumiYour fragrant breathlike the morning breezehas come to the stillness of the gardenYou have breathed new life into me.RumiThe world is a prison and we are the prisoners: dig a hole in the prison and let yourself out!RumiThe light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.RumiIn truth everything and everyoneIs a shadow of the Beloved,And our seeking is His seekingAnd our words are His wordsWe search for Him here and there,while looking right at Him.Sitting by His side, we ask:O Beloved, where is the Beloved?RumiHe is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live!RumiIf in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.RumiEveryone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.RumiChristian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.RumiI bow to you for the dust of your feetIs the crown on my headAnd as I walk towards youEvery step I take is a blessing.RumiSince in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.RumiO tongue, you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.RumiThe intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.RumiMany of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. As the Prophet said, The faithful are mirrors to one another.RumiWhoever gives reverence receives reverence.RumiIf you are wholly perplexed and in straits,have patience, for patience is the key to joy.RumiDissolve in the Being who is everything.RumiThere is no worse sickness for the soul,O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.RumiThe worlds flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.RumiHow should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been a heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!RumiO heart, if you want to join us,raise yourselfto the dome of the inner skyEnter the fortress that no one can break.RumiWhy should I be wearywhen every cell of my body is bursting with life?Why should I be a donkeys slavewhen I ride upon a magical horse?Why should I be less than the Moonwhen there are no scorpions at my feet?Why should I stay at the bottom of a wellwhen a strong rope is in my hand?RumiI am the rays of the Sundancing through the windows of every house.RumiI am the glorious Sun,the ocean laden with pearls.Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.RumiThe truth of what you seeis written all over your face!RumiI come to you without me, come to me without you.Self is the thorn in the sole of the soul.Merge with others,If you stay in self, you are a grain, you are a drop,If you merge with others, you are an ocean, you are a mine.RumiNot Christian or Jew or Muslim, not HinduBuddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religionor cultural system. I am not from the Eastor the West, not out of the ocean or upfrom the ground, not natural or ethereal, notcomposed of elements at all. I do not exist,am not an entity in this world or the next,did not descend from Adam or Eve or anyorigin story. My place is placeless, a traceof the traceless. Neither body or soul.I belong to the beloved, have seen the twoworlds as one and that one call to and know,first, last, outer, inner, only thatbreath breathing human being.RumiI drank that wine of which the soul is its vessel. Its ecstacy has stolen my intellect away. A light came and kindled a flame in the depth of my soul. A light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.RumiIn generosity and helping others be like a river.In compassion and grace be like sun.In concealing others faults be like night.In anger and fury be like dead.In modesty and humility be like earth.In tolerance be like a sea.Either exist as you are or be as you look.RumiLet silence take you to the core of life.RumiThe soil is faithful to its trust: whateveryou have sown in it, you reap the same.But until springtime brings the touch of God,the soil does not reveal its secrets.RumiHe breathes into my earuntil my soultakes on His fragrance.He is the soul of my soul.RumiClose the language-door,and open the love-windowThe moon wont use the door,only the window.RumiGo my friendBestow your loveEven on your foesIf you touch their heartsWhat do you think will happen.RumiBe grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.RumiIn the midst of making form, lovemade this form that melts form,with love for the door,soul the vestibule.RumiWatch the dust grains movingin the light near the window.their dance is our dance.RumiI have died many times, but your breathmade me alive again.RumiI am the Spirit Moonwith no place.You do not see me for I am hiddeninside the soul.RumiI am the garden of all gardensI speak as the King of all flowersI am the spring of all waters.My words are like a ship and the seais their meaning.Come to me and I will take youto the depths of spirit.RumiMy soul is screaming in ecstasyEvery fiber of my beingis in love with youYour effulgencehas lit a fire in my heart.RumiMy arrow of lovehas arrived at the targetI am in the house of mercyand my heartis a place of prayer.RumiNo longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.RumiA thorn in the foot is hard to find.What about a thorn in the heart?If everyone saw the thorn in his heart,when would sorrow gain the upper hand?RumiDont take a wooden sword into battle. Go, find one of steel; then march forward with joy.RumiLove, the life-giving garden of this world.RumiWherever Beauty looks,Love is also there.RumiBeauty and Love are as body and soul.Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.They have togethersince the beginning of time-Side by side, step by step.RumiThis is a gathering of Lovers.In this gatheringthere is no high, no low,no smart, no ignorant,no special assembly,no grand discourse,no proper schooling required.There is no master,no disciple.RumiPatience is the key to joy.RumiYou think the shadow is the substance.RumiThat which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.RumiPeople of the world dont look at themselves, and so they blame one another.RumiOne need not worry or fret about any secret magic to begin to unlock her inner soul. It will respond to the one who seeks it.RumiYou wander from room to room. Hunting for the diamond necklace.That is already around your neck.RumiIn your lightI learn how to love.In your beauty, how to make poems.You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you.RumiWith every breathI plant the seeds of devotion -I am a farmer of the heart.RumiEvery momentI shape my destiny with a chisel -I am the carpenter of my own soul.RumiO Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now,Be all worlds dissolve into yourstainless endless radiance,Frail living leaves burn with your brighterthan cold stares Make me your servant, your breath, your core.RumiWhoever brought me here will have to take me home.RumiI ama sculptor, a molder of form.In every moment I shape an idol.But then, in front of you, I melt them downI can rouse a hundred formsand fill them with spirit,but when I look into your face,I want to throw them in the fire.RumiMy souls spills into yours and is blended.Because my soul has absorbed your fragrance,I cherish it.RumiI merge with my Belovedwhen I participate in love.RumiIn this house of mud and water,my heart has fallen to ruins.Enter this house, my Love,or let me leave.RumiBecause your sighshave fermented my bloodI need no wine.RumiI begin the Night Journey in your eyestoward the wild desert fragranceI longed for all day.RumiWe are each others searchfor whats between our mirrors.RumiOn the wick of your eye, you lit me:I danced out in your seeing.From the golden oil in my bonesI kindled you.RumiA soul for my soul,you gushedthrough my hollow places.Anoint me now! Stream downthis broken necklaceof dangling pearlsfrom throat to thigh.Unite the sea and setting sun.RumiWhen dawn comes, well whisperwhich of us was stillness,which the dancer.RumiReason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.RumiWhat is the body? That shadow of a shadowof your love, that somehow containsthe entire universe.RumiThere is no reality but God,says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.RumiI cant stop pointingto the beauty.Every moment and place says,Put this design in your carpet!RumiI am filled with you.Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul.Theres no room for lack of trust, or trust.Nothing in this existence but that existence.RumiA prince is justa conceit until he does something with generosity.RumiWhy use bitter soup for healingwhen sweet water is everywhere?RumiI am Gods Lion, not the lion of passion.I have no longingexcept for the One.When a wind of personal reaction comes,I do not go along with it.RumiCome, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:every success depends upon focusing the heart.RumiEverything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft,wasnt it first merely a thought and a quest?RumiMy heart is expanding a thousand fold.Every cell,taking wings,flies about the world.All seek separatelythe many faces of my Beloved.RumiOh soul,you worry too much.You have seen your own strength.You have seen your own beauty.You have seen your golden wings.Of anything less,why do you worry?You are in truththe soul, of the soul, of the soul.RumiThe branch might seem like the fruits origin:In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.RumiGood and bad are mixed. If you dont have both,you dont belong with us.RumiDo not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.RumiEvery tree and plant in the meadowseemed to be dancing,those which average eyes would seeas fixed and still.RumiObserve the wonders as they occur around you.Dont claim them. Feel the artistrymoving through, and be silent.RumiAre you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?What do you know of Love except the name?Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.RumiCome, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:every success depends upon focusing the heart.RumiEvery rose that is sweet-scented within,That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.RumiMy head is burstingwith the joy of the unknown.RumiHow very closeis your soul with mineI know for sureeverything you thinkgoes through my mind.RumiJoyful the moment when we sat in the bower, Thou and I;In two forms and with two faces with one soul, Thou and I.The colour of the garden and the song of the birds give the elixir of immortalityThe instant we come into the orchard, Thou and I.The stars of Heaven come out to look upon us -We shall show the moon herself to them, Thou and I.Thou and I, with no Thou or I, shall become one through our tasting;Happy, safe from idle talking, Thou and I.The spirited parrots of heaven will envy us -Wen we shall laugh in such a way, Thou and I.This is stranger, that Thou and I, in this corner hereAre both in one breath here and there Thou and I.RumiLove is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.RumiYour beauty is glory in nakedness, the meltOf smooth skin unsullied with petulant jewelsAnd the spoiling touch of silk. Your delicate faceIs as pure as the milk of the full moon.RumiThere is a sun within every person,the you we call companion.RumiThou art the Spring, and we the sweet green garden.RumiDo thou smile like the rose at loss and gain;For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder,Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.RumiKindle in thy heart the flame of Love,And burn up utterly thoughts and fine expressions.RumiThe fertile garden of Love, as it is boundless,Contains other fruits besides joy and sorrow.The true lover is exalted above these two states,He is fresh and green independently of autumn or spring.RumiI am a lover well versed in lovers madness,I am weary of learning and sense.RumiOne who is really loved is the single object of her lover, the Alpha and Omega of his desires.RumiA damsel said to her lover, O fond youth,You have visited many cities in your travels;Which of those cities seems most delightful to you?He made answer, The city wherein my love dwells.RumiThe sect of lovers is distinct from all others,Lovers have a religion and a faith of their own.RumiWith thee, my love, hell itself were heaven.With thee a prison would be a rose-garden.With thee hell would be a mansion of delight,Without thee lilies and roses would be as flames of fire!RumiLove is fearless in the midst of the sea of fear.RumiWhen you have accepted the Light, O beloved,When you behold what is veiled without a veil,Like a star you will walk upon the heavens.RumiWhen the lover feels no longer loves quickening,He becomes like a bird who has lost its wings.RumiLove exalts our earthly bodies to heaven,And makes the very hills to dance with joy!RumiHail to thee, O Love, sweet madness!Thou who healest all our infirmities!RumiDid my Beloved only touch me with his lips,I too, like a flute, would burst out into melody.Rumi