This we Have Now

In love, aside from sipping the wine of timelessness, nothing else exists. There is no reason for living except for giving one's life. I said, "First I know you, then I die."He said, "For the one who knows Me, there is no…

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek thatmine. O traveler, if you are in search of Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek That.

In the prologue to the Masnavi Rumi hailed Love and its sweet madness that heals all infirmities, and he exhorted the reader to burst the bonds to silver and gold to be free. The Beloved is all in all and is only veiled by the…

Who makes these changes? I shoot an arrow right. It lands left. I ride after a deer and find

Thirst is angry with water. Hunger bitter with bread. The cave wants nothing to do with the sun. This is dumb, the self- defeating way we've been.

If anyone asks youhow the perfect satisfactionof all our sexual wantingwill look, lift your faceand say, Like this. When someone mentions the gracefulnessof the nightsky, climb up on the roofand dance and say, Like this.

Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vowa thousand

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Buddhist, 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.