Mevlana Rumi

Oh god
Let all lovers be content
Give them happy endings
Let their lives be celebrations
Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love

You have been hiding so long
aimlessly drifting
in the sea of my love

Even so
You have always been
connected to me
Connected, revealed
in the known
in the unmanifest
I am life itself

I walk into a huge pasture
I nurse the milk of millennia

Our death is our wedding with eternity.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask,
it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright,
you must do a little work.

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

One morning I went to a place beyond the Dawn. A source of sweetness, that always flows, and is never less. I have been shown a Beauty that would confuse both worlds. I won't cause that uproar.  I am nothing but a head, set on the ground, as a gift for the Sun (Shams).

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates
that you haven't been patient.

If you are a man of learning,
read something classic,
a history of the human struggle
and don't settle for mediocre verse.

Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color!
For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.