Your Heart Knows

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.

You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.

You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.

And it is well you should.

The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;

And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.

But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;

And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.

For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."

Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, 

"I have met the soul walking upon my path."

For the soul walks upon all paths.

The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.

The soul unfolds itself like a lotus of countless petals.

Khalil Ghibran

Love flows from God

Love flows from God to man without effort

As a bird glides through the air

Without moving its wings --

Thus they go whithersoever they will

United in body and soul

Yet in their form separate --

As the Godhead strikes the note

Humanity sings,

The Holy Spirit is the harpist

And all the strings must sound

Which are strung in love.

Metchilde de Magdeburg

The Dancing Cry Of The Soul

Love is the dancing cry of the soul, calling the body to worship

Like a shining whirlpool, or a spinning mayfly

So is love among the skies.

I leap across the mountaintops, madly singing the song of all songs

I float through the ether, intoxicated, thrilled

I think only of your love, your calling to me

And I dance the thousand dances of love, all returning to you.

It is not the play of children, nor the detached unity of wise sages

Unreal! Unnecessary!

Where is the beauty?

When I, like a glowing comet, may flash around your sun

Laughing, singing, with the joy of loving you!

Wine makes drunk the mind and body

But it is love which thrills the soul

When I approach you, I feel the mad pounding of love

The singing wonder

The joy which opens blossoms on the trees of the world.

Come to me, and I shall dance with you

In the temples, on the beaches, through the crowded streets

Be you man or woman, plant or animal, slave or free

I shall show you the brilliant crystal fires, shining within

I shall show you the beauty deep within your soul

I shall show the path beyond Heaven.

Only dance, and your illusions will blow in the wind

Dance, and make joyous the love around you

Dance, and your veils which hide the Light

Shall swirl in a heap at your feet.

~Rumi