Rumi ...

Love resides
Not in learning
Not in knowledge
Not in pages and pamphlets
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Wherever the debates of men may lead
That is not the lovers' path

Love's branches arch over pre-eternity
Its roots, you see, delve in Forever
A tree resting not on soil
Nor trunk
Not even Heaven's throne

We deposed reason
Punishing passion with the lash
For such reason and such morals
Were degrading to such glory

You see
So long as you long
You idolize longing
But become the beloved
And then no being longs

The incessant hopes and fears
Of the sea-faring man
Float upon planks
But obliterate
Both planks and seaman
And only submersion remains

Shams of Tabriz

The sea is you
The pearl too

Because your being
Head to toe
Is nothing
But the mystery
Of the Maker