Essence of the One
Only Love Can Explain Itself
Love is the astrolabe of God’s mysteries.
A lover may be drawn to this love or that love,
but finally he is drawn to the Sultan of love.
However much we describe and explain love,
when we fall in love we are ashamed of our words.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear,
but love unexplained is clearer.
When the pen came to the subject of love, it broke.
When the discourse reached the topic of love,
the pen split and the paper tore.
If intellect tried to explain it,
it falls helpless as a donkey on a muddy trail;
only Love itself can explain love and lovers!
The proof of the sun is in the sun itself.
If you wish to see it, don’t turn away from it.
~ Jalaludin Rumi
from [Mathnawi I: 110-116]
The Rumi Daybook by Kabir and Camille Helminski
Love is everywhere.
Love is the all and the nothing.
“If you wish to see it, don’t turn away from it.”
I shall not try to explain it,
since as “the pen split and the paper tore,”
this computer may implode.
Nothing is separate from
the Essence of The One.
(not even you)
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