“Oh Sweet Bitterness!I will soothe you and heal youI will bring you rosesI too have been covered with thorns.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.”
“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection?”
“The way you make love is the wayGod will be with you.”
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”