Occupation: Poet Birth: September 30, 1207 Death: December 17, 1273
Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green dayli….
Lovers drink wine all day and night and tear the veils of the mind. When drunk with love's wine, body, heart and soul become one..
There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them..
The moon has become a dancer at this festival of LOVE..
Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else..
You've seen my descent, now watch my rising..
You are the mirror of divine beauty..
Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love..
IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of sha….
In our hearts there burns a fire... That burns all veils to their root and foundation When those veils have been burned away Then the heart wil….
I am your own voice echoing off the walls of God.
The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night..
Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead..
You have Within you more love than you could ever understand..
Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird..
Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of ….
Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds ….
There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts..
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure..
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself..
This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere..