Tuesday, August 21, 2012

The One Master

"Love is the One who masters all things; 

I am mastered totally by Love. 


By my passion of love for Love 



I have ground sweet as sugar.


O furious Wind, I am only a straw before you;


How could I know where I will be blown next?


Whoever claims to have made a pact with Destiny


Reveals himself a liar and a fool;


What is any of us but a straw in a storm?


How could anyone make a pact with a hurricane?


God is working everywhere his massive Resurrection;


How can we pretend to act on our own?


In the hand of Love I am like a cat in a sack;


Sometimes Love hoists me into the air,


Sometimes Love flings me into the air,


Love swings me round and round His head;


I have no peace, in this world or any other.


The lovers of God have fallen in a furious river;


They have surrendered themselves to Love's commands.


Like mill wheels they turn, day and night, day and night,


Constantly turning and turning, and crying out."





Rumi






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