That your drop may become a sea which is a hundred seas of ‘Oman.’”
From the Divani Shamsi Tabriz of Jalal-ud-din
Rumi, trans. by R. A. Nicholson.
“’Twere better that the spirit which wears not true love as a garment
Had not been: its being is but shame.
Be drunken in love, for love is all that exists....
Dismiss cares and be utterly clear of heart,
Like the face of a mirror, without image or picture.
When it becomes clear of images, all images are contained in it.”
Ibid.
“Happy the moment when we are seated in the palace, thou and I,