They will ask you what you have produced. Say to them, except for Love, what else can a Lover produce?
Rumi
We talk about this and that. There's no rest except on these branching moments.
rest
I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, Put this design in your carpet!
places design beauty
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin.
life wisdom beauty
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about language, ideas, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense.
language
The place that Solomon made to worship in, called the Far Mosque, is not built of earth and water and stone, but of intention and wisdom and mystical conversation and compassionate action.
places life wisdom action
This heart sanctuary does exist, but it can't be described. Why try! Solomon goes there every morning and gives guidance with words, with musical harmonies, and in actions, which are the deepest teaching. A prince is just a conceit until he does something with generosity.
conceit generosity action
Didn't I tell you? They will accuse you of all the wrongdoings, they will call you ugly names, they will make you forget it is me, who is the source of your happiness.
happiness
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
work
The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.
men
Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.
vision men
This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.
poetry plans
There is a community of the spirit Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street, and being the noise.
community
This dance is the joy of existence. I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.
trust dance
The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.
pain
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