Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you,
not knowing how blind that was.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They are in each other all along.

~Jelaluddin Rumi
  Trans., Coleman Barks
  Rumi, The Big Red Book, p. 377
Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It's not.

~Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Gamble everything for love,
if you are a true human being.
If not, leave this gathering.

Half-heartedness does not reach into majesty.
You set out to find God,
then you keep stopping for long periods
at mean-spirited roadhouses.

~Jelaluddin Rumi
Translated, Coleman Barks
Rumi: The Big Red Book (p. 457)