P れり , 2 引 E X PA N S I O N A N D C O N T R A C T I O N Before everything you own slips away tell the material world, like Mary: My refuge is with the Merciful. ln her room Mary had seen something that won her heart, something intensely alive. That trusted spirit rose from the face Of the earth like a sun or moon rising in the East like beauty unveiled. Mary, who was undressed, began t0 tremble, afraid of the evil that might be in it. This kind ofthing could cause Joseph tO cut his own wrist. lt flowered in front of her like a rose, like a fantasy that lifts its head in the heart. Mary became selfless and in this selflessness she said, 当 will leap into G0d's protection, because that pure-bosomed one could take herself to the Unseen. Since she thought this world a temporary kingdom, she built her fortress in Presence, so that in the hour of death she would be invulnerable. She saw no better protection than GOd ・ she made her home near tO His castle.

206 T H E R U M ー C ( ) L L E C T IO N My sickness has been a blessing, because it brought you here this morning. ー am happy with my fever, with lying awake at night, rather than sleeping all night like a buffalo, and for the pain ⅲ my back that woke me at midnight. Pain iS a treasure ()f mercy. Behind its thick rind is a delicious fruit. Be a fellow traveler with grief, a companion Of desolation, find a long life ⅲ the dying of your self. Don't listen to what your body craves. Take your counsel elsewhere, if you don't wish to end in regret. Know that your 翫の , your lower self, has womanly wiles, and while a woman's wiles may be incomplete, your 小 is totally beguiling. げ you ask your 襯小 what to do, do the opposite what she says. For she can cause you t() lose all discernment. She will offer you the same promise she has broken a thousand times. げ your life were lengthened a hundred years, your 〃ト would Offer new pretexts daily. She utters cold and vain promises

66 T 日 E R し M ー C ( ) L L E C T IO 、 Camille 日Ⅲⅲ s ) は ra 〃 s い Ka わ汁日襯ⅲ s んⅢ MATHNAWIIII, 3204 ; 3208 ー 3 幻 3 flow from the mother's breast? how should the milk for it UntiIthe tender-throated babe is born, so water may gush forth from above and below. Don t seek the water; increase your thirst wherever a Ship iS, goes t() it. that's where the answer goes; Wherever a difficult question is, wherever poverty is, that's where provlsion goes. Wherever a pain is, that's where the cure goes; satisfying needs. He has created them for the purpose of If God most High has created the heavens, so that a seeker might find the thing she sought. in need Whatever grew has grown for the sake of those begin to speak from the cradle. JeSUlS lt was Marys painful need that made the infant S AT ー S FY I N G N E E D S T H I S U N I V E R S E I S F O R

月 0 〃ⅲ g 市に Chickpeas B O I L N I C E LY N O Ⅵみ Look at the chickpea ⅲ the pot, how it leaps up when it feels the fire. 141 WhiIe boiling, it continually rises to the top and cries, Why are you setting the fire under me? Since you bought me, why are you turning me upside down?" The housewife keeps hitting it with theladle. 。、 No!" she says, boil nicely now, and don'tleap away from the one who makes the fire. lt's not because you are hatefulto me that I boil YOLI' but so that you might gain flavor, and become nutritious and mingle with essential spirit. This affliction is not because you are despised. When you were green and fresh, you were drinking water in the garden ・ that water-drinking was for the sake of this fire. MATHNAWIIII, 4159 ー 4165 (tra 〃 s / い K 訪汁日ⅲた祠 Camille 日川ⅲ s 朝 )

8 T 日 E R U M ー C ( ) L L E C T 10 N matter hOW you try When you feel asinine qualities in YOLI, no like a fledgling not thinking of the ground. you fly up quickly When you feel the qualities of GabrieI ⅲ you, she wants him physically ⅲ her. feels the masculine self of a man within her, he is drawn tO her sexually. When a woman nature Of a woman, When a man feels in himself the innermost compamons. in YOLI as in another, YOLI are drawn tO be inner sight exiStS opens a door between them. When the same When the same knowledge What is a real connection between people? T H O S E Y O U A R E W I T H ( /tra 燃信 t い - 同Ⅲ M の , Ⅲ C 司聞〃 Barks) FURUZANFAR 〃 425 There's no place like that an»vhere in the world. inside LIS. When one of us gets lost, is not here, he must be you don't belong with us.

T 日 E R U M ー C ( ) L L E C T IO 、 W H Y A R E YO U M I L K I N G ANOTHER? Strip the raiment of pride from your body: ⅲ learning, put on the garment of humility. SouI receives from soulthe knowledge of humility, not from books or speech. Though mysteries of spiritual poverty are within the seeker's heart, she doesn t yet possess knowledge of those mysteries. Let her wait until her heart expands and fills with Light: God said, 。のⅥを〃 ex 卩田れい 0 Ⅲ - 房仇 . For We have put illumination there, We have put the expansion into your heart. When you are a source of milk, why are you milking another? An endless fountain of milk is within you: why are you seeking milk with a pail? You are a lake with a channel to the Sea: be ashamed to seek water from a pool; for did Ⅵを〃研斗田 ) , 0 れ r c 厖 . Again, don't you possess the expansion. Why are you going about like a beggar? Contemplate the expansion ( ) 「 the heart within Qur'an, 94 亠 Surah Ash-Sharh (The Opening of the Heart),

228 T H E R し M ー C ( ) L L E C T IO N T H E E M P TY H E A R T Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support. Since Solomon cast the desire for wealth out from his heart, he didn't call himself by any name but poor. The stoppered jar, though ⅲ rough water, floated because of its empty heart. When the wind of poverty is ⅲ anyone, she floats in peace on the waters Of this world. MATHNAWII, 985 ー 988 は ra / 襯い K 訪汁 H 襯ⅲ s Ⅲ Camille H 襯ⅲ s ) T H E G U E S T H O U S E Darling, the body is a guest house; every mormng someone arnves. Don't say, O, another weight around my neck!" or your guest will fly back t0 nothingness ・ Whatever enters your heart is a guest from the invisible world: entertain it well. Every day, and every moment, a thought comes like an honored guest intO your heart. My soul, regard each thought as a person, for every person's value is in the thought they hold.

236 T 日 E R U M ー C O L L E C T IO N Abandon the dry prayer of words, for the tree presupposes the scattering of seeds. Yet even if you have no seed, due to your prayer, God will bestow upon you a palm tree saying, How well did he labor!" Like Mary—she had heartfelt pain, but no seed: an artful One made that withered palm tree green for her sake. Because that noble lady was loyalto God, God fulfilled a hundred desires without desire on her part. MATHNAWI V, 1188—1191 ( /tra 〃諸日い K 訪汁 H 〃ⅲ s た Camille 日襯ⅲ s ) W H E N A M A N A N D A W O M A N B E C O M E O N E I darkened my eyes with the dust of sadness untileach of them was a sea full pearls. AII the tears which we creatures shed for Him are not tears as many think but pearls.

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

ん x 可石 tl い田信たⅲい _/ay ・ⅲロ Dry 用川 , 7- ' 厖 , 13 259 Just as your tWO eyes are under the control Of the heart, ー 02 Keeper 0fSecrets, 163 K 夜フ祠田れ信厖 S 厖″ , 77 肥 , 103 Know, son, that everything in the universe, 73 Know the mirror Of the heart is infinite, IOI Learn from your great-grandfather Adam, 113 Light going dim.ls it my eyes, or a cloud, or the sun, 祐 2 Lightning falling on the helpless ・ 147 S Ⅲ g 〃い甲 0 アロ厖 Earth, 6 し 77 示 , 59 Listen to the reed and the tale it tells, 178 Listen, ( ) drop, give yourself up without regret, 幻 7 Listen, put trust in G ( ) d い 85 L ⅱ司市 00 日 , 71 LO 〃 g ⅲ g 扣ロ厖 s 可 SO / 0 襯 0 〃 , 155 Look at her face, 186 Look at the chickpea in the pot, 141 Look at yourself, trembling, afraid 0f nonexistence, 80 Losing the いの ; 202 L01 ℃石〃ホ All Arguments, 243 Lo 怩ム〃 L これいⅲな 144 た 0 怩な Reckless, 198 Love is the flame which, when it blazes, 197 Lo 怩ム the M いい 69 Love is the One who masters all things, 169 Love of the dead does notlast, 77 Love whispers ⅲ my ear, 祐 5 LO 怩、 Apoc ) 甲記 , L ( ルバ G ありい 23 Lovers think they're looking for each other, 7 Lo 怩、〃。パ S 卩 , "lhe, 円 3 Make realthe sublime words of the Prophet, 祐 Many Of the faults YOLI see in others, dear reader, 22