Inspirations

For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, ‘God is in my heart,’ but rather, ‘I am in the heart of God.’

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;

To return home at eventide with gratitude;

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

RUMI

from Spiritual Verses

The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) asks Zayd,

‘How are you today, and how did you rise?’ And his reply:

‘I woke up a believer, O messenger of God’

The holy Prophet said to Zayd one morning,

‘How do you feel this morning, my good friend?’

He said, ‘A faithful slave.’ Again he asked him,

‘If your faith’s garden blossomed, where’s the sign?’

And he replied, ‘By day I have been parched;

by night I have not slept, from love and fever.

And so I passed through day and night just as

the spearhead’s tip will penetrate the shield.

For on the other side all creeds are one;

a hundred thousand years is like an hour.

Eternity before and after time

is one – the mind cannot go there inquiring.’