18 Sunday Mar 2012
Peace, one and all…
Love is saying, ‘Anyone who offers up his life
Will receive more: a hundred and a thousand lives in exchange.
Notice what things Love whispers in your ear,
So that it may pull your ear and draw you to itself.
Mevlana, Quatrain 1810
23 Friday Dec 2011
Peace, one and all…
‘The body is a tent for the spirit,
an ark for Noah’
Masnavi 2.455
18 Sunday Dec 2011
Peace, one and all…
Mercy only resides in a house with a burning lamp.
Love sailed into the heavens, where will this ship drop anchor?
One should sink the boat of intellect and rationality on its first trip.
The Beloved is visible everywhere, Bahu, wherever my gaze turns.
(Sultan Bahu, trans. Jamal Elias)
