As soon as you clear your hearing
The voice of a saviour will shortly be heard as soon as you clear your hearing don’t drink now this polluted water the elixir…
One live flame
“if your beloved has the life of a fire step in now and burn along in a night full of suffering and darkness be…
Addicted to subtle discussions
We’re quite addicted to subtle discussions; we’re very fond of solving problems. So that we may tie knots and then undo them, we constantly…
All I have to offer…
Rest your cheek, for a moment, on this drunken cheek. Let me forget the war and cruelty inside myself. I hold these silver coins…
Each Note
Advice doesn’t help lovers! They’re not the kind of mountain stream you can build a dam across. An intellectual doesn’t know what the drunk…
“What do you really possess?”
What do you really possess, and what have you gained? What pearls have you brought up from the depth of the sea? On the…
I am a child of love
I profess the religion of love, Love is my religion and my faith. My mother is love My father is love My prophet is…
Who am I,my friend
How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Don’t try to put out a fire by throwing…
Any Chance Meeting
In every gathering, in any chance meeting on the street, there is a shine, an elegance rising up. Today, I recognized that that jewel-like…
When the heart becomes whole
When the heart becomes whole, it will know the flavors of falsehood and truth. When Adam’s greed for the forbidden fruit increased, it robbed…
I wasn’t like this before….
believe me i wasn’t always like this lacking common sense or looking insane like you i used to be clever in my days never…
“This Useless Heart”
Heart, since you embraced the mysteries, you have become useless for anything else. Go mad, don’t stay sane. People meditate to get something. All…
For I do not recognise myself
ATP recently published a piece of mine on Rumi and Bulleh Shah. I have quoted a translation of Rumi’s verse (rendered by Reynold A.…
Occupy yourself with your own inward self! – Rumi
Oh heart, place no honey in the mouth of the ill! Speak not of entrancing eyes in the assembly of the blind! Although God…
Turned by the waves of Love – Rumi
Know that the wheeling heavens are turned by waves of Love: were it not for Love, the world would be frozen, stiff. How would…
If you don’t know the way – Rumi
If you have a touchstone, go ahead, choose; otherwise, go and devote yourself to one who knows the differences. Either you must have a…
Choosing to burn
My dear heart you’re a fire worshiper an explosive in flame call on the cupbearer to sprinkle the wine on you to soothe your…
Behold the faithfulness of spring
The red rose, which tears its cloak to shreds — I for one know its motive. The willow has let down its branches in…
when lilies sprout…
“The Shape of My Tongue” This mirror inside me shows . . . I can’t say what, but I can’t not know! I run…
if you are a man of this life
If you are a man of this life then march on this path like a man or retire and take refuge in your house…