6 T H E R U M ー C ( ) L L E C T IO N one belt. Omar and Ali on the same throne, tWO kings in derstand. The cynic bites his finger because he cant un- branch are the same branch. green This is the season when the dead branch and the An amalgam. Their gold and silver melt together. moon: Day and night, no difference. The sun is the They're lovers again: sugar dissolving in milk. T H E E L U S I V E O N E S Ⅵ引川日日ⅵの は ra い Camille 日 e / 襯ⅲ s ⅲ it blooms in Beauty, fully Divine. And when You pour me upon this world, and made me for all eyes Your sign. You bade me blossom on Your robe, for I, Your rose, had this intent. ln Your sweet pain, pain dissolves; nor do I complain beneath the press. You crush me into rose oil, drop by drop; sweeten infant smiles. Our sweetnesses, all merged in You,

Ⅵ , 衍たⅲ g ルれ〇れ r Humanness The love of women iS made attractive tO men. God has arranged it: how can they avoid what God has arranged? lnasmuch as GOd created woman so that Adam might take comfort in her, how can Adam be parted from Eve? Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: She iS creative, not created. C 田ⅲ H 襯ⅲ s ) は ra 扉翻い K 訪汁 H 川ⅲ s た朝祠 MATHNAWII, 2383 is made for the eye Of one whO sees. I ovely Everything that is made beautiful and fair and Camille H ⅲ燃 ) ( "tra 帰 t 翻い K 汁 H 川ⅲ s ん田 MATHNAWII, 2435-2437 5

188 T H E R U M ー C O L L E C T I O N ( 'tra 扉い R 。厖 Bly) the body, cell by cell we made it. We made and our body is a honeycomb. \/Ve The body developed out of us, not we from it. not the Other way. Wine got drunk with us, they are longing for our growing consciousness. around the North PoIe, When stars wheel t0 wine, they long for our ability t0 change. When grapes turn W H E N G RA P E S T U R N T O W I N E ( /tra 扉い Coleman Barks) FURUZANFAR # 2674 that springs from being ⅲ love. with it, the inspired knowing They were afraid they might make a mistake the next responsibility Of love as you can. accept Faith. The other parts of the universe did not

77 肥梔Ⅲⅲ g IT WAS ADAM WHO WEPT Learn from your great-grandfather Adam! When he lost the union, the tears that fell from his face made every valley in CeyIon full of fragrant spices and herbs. And you still say you cannot choose the road? The stubborn angel said that. And he was the one who refused praise to the lnner man . When a human being has experienced the ecstasy, he knows. He doesn t say, Please lay out your system 0f proofs for me. From the outer layers Of the LlnCOlÄSCiOUS, logic ・ from the inner man, love. は ra 扉い R 。厖月 I D L E Q U E S T I O N S A person hit a Worker a good strong blow from behind. The Worker swung around to return it; and the man said: 'Before you hit me, I have a question for you. Now this is it: that sound: was it made by my hand oryour neck?"

7 ・ ' 厖 Gift Ⅲれ信厖 Giver Know, son, that everything in the universe Camille H 浦ⅲ燃 ) (tra 扉い K 訪日襯ⅲ s た祠 MATHNAWI 1, 2860 ー 2862 more radiant than the heavens. it burst open and made the earth His Beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full this Beauty not contained by any skin. Beauty, The universe is a drop of the Tigris of His is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty. 73

塚 2 T 日 E R し M ー C ( ) L L E C T IO N は ra 扉い K 訪日襯ⅲ s ) MATHNAWI Ⅵ , 2324 ー 2327 from whom comes this self-conceit Of mine? O, I wonder, by His sovereign power to loosen and tO bind But since my hand is made empty trouble. in LlnCOlÄSCiOLlSneSS, in sleep, and in times Of SOLII ー would be aware of the stages journeyed by the would be secured within my own cage. and the birds of my senses against my will At night my consciousness would not leave my control. my consideration and plans would all be under lfl had any judgment and skill of my own, O U T O F C O N T R O L

月尾 Co 川卩 H 材襯田 7 TW O K I N D S O F M I RA C L E S 157 lMiracles secret and open 日 ow from the teacher. With reason—that's not unusual at all. And the tiniest of these miracles is this: everyone near a saint gets drunk with God. When a spiritual man lets the water hold up his feet we are moved, because by ways we cannot see the sight that links the soul back to the source of all lightness. ( ) 「 course a saint move a mountain. But whO cares about that? HOW marvelous is the bread made without dough, the dishes of food that are invisible. N/larys grapes that never saw the vine! ( 'tra 信 t い召。厖れ BI)')

に 4 T 日 E R U M I C O L L E C T IO N Since the quality ofbeing sought is the opposite 0f seeking, revelation and divine lightning consume the prophet with fire. When the attributes of the Eternal shine forth, the garment Of time is burned away. MATHNAWIIII, 1388 ー 91 ( /tra 信 t い K 訪汁日襯ⅲ s た Camille 日〃ⅲ s ん ) A WO R D T O T H E H E A R T That which God said to the rose, and caused it tolaugh ⅲ full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. MATHNAWI Ⅱし 4129 は ra / 翻い K 汁日襯ⅲ s た Cami 〃 e H 〃ⅲ s )

T 日 E R U M ー C ( ) L L E C T IO 、 W H E N T H I N G S A R E H E A R D The ear participates and helps arrange marnages•, the eye has ah ℃ ady made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights ⅲ the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; When Y()LI see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only When YOLI burn. げ you long for belief, sit down ⅲ the fire! When the ear receives subtly, it turns intO an eye. But if words dO not reach the ear in the chest nothing happens. は ra 扉い召。厖 BI)')

2 T 日 E R U M ー C ( ) L L E C T IO N (tra いわ〃 M の , Ⅲ Coleman Barks) FURUZANFAR # 568 this image tightly held within itself. trying wildly t0 open, Sometimes pure light, sometimes cruel made Of distraction and pain. The human shape is a ghost Camille 日襯ⅲ s ) は ra 翻い K 訪汁 H 襯ⅲ s た祠 MATHNAWIIII, 2652 ー 2654 when the Day of Reckoning arrives. that you should know who you will be This, this is the essence ()f all sciences— are fortunate or unlucky. but you don't know whether you yourself lnauspicious stars, You've come tO know the fortunate and the it's all foolishness. but if you don't know the value of your own soul, merchandise, You know the value of every article of Y O U R W O R T H