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If anyone asks you how the perfect satifaction of all our sexual wanting will look, lift your face and say Like this. When someone mentions the gracefulness of the nightsky, climb up on the roof and dance and say Like this? If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is, or what "God's fragrance" means, lean your head towards him or her. Keep your face there close. Like this. When someone quotes the poetic image about clouds gradually uncovering the moon, slowly loosen knot by knot the strings of your robe Like this? If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead, don't try to explain the miracle. Kiss me on the lips. Like this. When someone asks what it means to "die for love," point here If someone asks you how tall I am, frown and measure with your fingers the space between the creases on your forehead. This tall. The soul sometimes leaves the body, then returns. When someone doesn't believe that, walk back into my house Like this. When lovers moan they're telling our story Like this. I am a sky where spirits live. Stare into this deepening blue, while the breeze says a secret. Like this. When someone asks what there is to do, light the candle in his hand. Like this. How did Joseph's scent come to Jacob? Huuuuu. How did Jacob's sight return? Huuuu. A little wind cleans the eyes. Like this. When Shams comes back from Tabriz, he'll put just his head around the edge of the door to surprise us Like this. |
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Say
I am You
I am dust particles in sunlight. I am the round sun, To the bits of dusts I say, Stay. To the sun, Keep moving. I am the morning mist, and the breathing of evening. I am the wind in the top of a grove, and the surf on the cliff. Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel, I am also the coral reef they founder on. I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches. Silence, thought, and voice. The musical air coming through a flute, a spark of a stone, a flickering in metal. Both candle, and the moth crazy around it. Rose, and the nightingale lost in the fragrance. I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy, the evolutionary intelligence, the lift, and the falling away. Whats is, and what isn't. You who know Jelaluddin, You the one in all, say who I am. Say I am you ~~~~~~~~~~ We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are the tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. ~~~~~~~~~~ I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. You would rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror, and here are the stones. ~~~~~~~~~~ When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you are not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for these two insomnias! And the difference between them. ~~~~~~~~~~ The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along |
I would love to kiss
you
The price of kissing is your life
Now my loving is running towards my life shouting
What a bargain, let's buy it
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This that
we have is not imagination.
This is not grief or joy.
Not a judging state,
or an elation, or sadness.
Those things come and go.
This is the presence that doesn't.
It's dawn, Husam, here in the splendour of coral, inside the Friend, the simple
truth of what Hallaj said.
What else could human beings want?
When grapes turn to wine, they're wanting this.
When the nightsky pours by, it's really a crowd of beggars, and they all want
some of this!
This that we are now created the body, cell by cell, like bees building a
honeycomb.
The human body and the universe grew from this,not this from the universe
and the human body.
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For years,
copying other people,
I tried to know myself. From within,
I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see,
I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
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