Rumi

1. Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
   The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
   Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
   The heart that is not in love will fail the test.
    
2. Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master
   Is either death in disguise or a deep sleep.
   The water that pollutes you is poison;
   The poison that purifies you is water.
    
3. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
   there is a field. I'll meet you there.
    
4. This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives.
   This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth.
   To be one with the truth for just a moment,
   Is worth more than the world and life itself.
    
5. The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
   Don't go back to sleep.
   You must ask for what you really want.
   Don't go back to sleep.
   
   People are going back and forth across the doorsill
   where the two worlds touch.
   The door is round and open.
   Don't go back to sleep.
    
6. Hundreds have looked for you and died searching
   in this garden where you hide behind the scenes.
   But this pain is not for those who come as lovers.
   You are easy to find here. You are in the breeze and in this river of wine.
    
7. O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now,
   Be all – worlds dissolve into your
   stainless endless radiance,
   Frail living leaves burn with your brighter
   than cold stares –
   Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
    
8. Come, Come again !
   Whatever you are...
   Whether you are infidel,
   idolater or fireworshipper.
   Whether you have broken your vows
   of repentance a hundred times
   This is not the gate of despair,
   This is the gate of hope.
   Come, come again...
    
9. A lifetime without Love is of no account
   Love is the Water of Life
   Drink it down with heart and soul!