Sunday, March 22, 2015

Beautiful Lines #2: Rumi

"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."


"You have no idea how hard I've looked
for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.
What's the point of bringing gold to
the gold mine, or water to the ocean.
Everything I came up with was like
taking spices to the Orient.
It's no good giving my heart and my
soul because you already have these.
So I've brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me."


"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded.
Someone sober will worry about things going badly.
Let the lover be."

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