Travel brings power and love back into your life. - Rumi

Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.

FORM IS ECSTATIC

There is a shimmering excitement in being sentient and shaped. The

caravan master sees his camels lost in it, nose to tail, as he himself is,

his friend, and the stranger coming toward them. A gardener watches the

sky break into song, cloud wobbly with what it is. Bud, thorn, the same.

Wind, water, wandering this essential state. Fire, ground, gone. That's

how it is with the outside. Form is ecstatic. Now imagine the inner:

soul, intelligence, the secret worlds!
And don't think the garden loses its

ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there rioutous.

If someone bumps you in the street, don't be angry. Everyone careens

about in this surprise. Respond in kind. Let the knots untie, turbans

be given away. Someone drunk on this could drink a donkeyload a night.

Believer, unbeliever, cynic, lover, all combine in the spirit-form we are,

but no one yet is awake like Shams.

حين يطلق الصياد صفيره الذى يشبه صوت الطائر
فإن هدفه اصطياد ذلك الطائر
إذ يجعله يهبط إلى الأرض نحو الصوت ليجد نفسه واقعا فى الشرك
ذلك ما يفعله التافه الذى يستعمل لفة الدراويش ليغش البسطاء من الناس
إن أعمال التقاة من الناس ضوء ودفء
وعمل الأشرار خزى واحتيال.