Rumi - English translations of poems, quotes etc

[Shapur]

look at love
how it tangles
with the one fallen in love

look at spirit
how it fuses with earth
giving it new life

why are you so busy
with this or that or good or bad
pay attention to how things blend

why talk about all
the known and the unknown
see how the unknown merges into the known

why think seperately
of this life and the next
when one is born from the last

look at your heart and tongue
one feels but deaf and dumb
the other speaks in words and signs

look at water and fire
earth and wind
enemies and friends all at once

the wolf and the lamb
the lion and the deer
far away yet together

look at the unity of this
spring and winter
manifested in the equinox

you too must mingle my friends
since the earth and the sky
are mingled just for you and me

be like sugarcane
sweet yet silent
don't get mixed up with bitter words

my beloved grows
right out of my own heart
how much more union can there be

[DaZahroJaam.]

"..This longing, too large for heaven and earth, fits easily into my heart.."

[sterge]

Out beyond ideas of
wrong-doing and right-doing
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.

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Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
Don’t claim them.
Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
Don’t grieve.
Anything you lose comes round in another form.

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If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.
If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul.
If you understand this secret,
you know you are that which you seek.

[DaZahroJaam.]

"Seek those who fan your flames."