Why should I seek more?
I am the same as he.
His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself.

Rumi The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
Also known as: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, جلال‌الدین محمد رومی, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى, Mevlana, Jalaluddin Rumi
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Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (جلال‌الدین محمد رومی) Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi (جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى)‎ (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) was an Afghan philosopher, theologian, poet, teacher, and founder of the Mevlevi (or Mawlawi) order of Sufism; also known as Mevlana (Our Guide), Jalaluddin Rumi, or simply Rumi.

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مَنْ لا يركض
إلى فتنة العشق
يمشي طريقا
لا شيء فيه حي.

You are sitting here with us,
but you are also out walking in a field at dawn.

You are yourself the animal we hunt
when you come with us on the hunt.

You are in your body
like a plant is solid in the ground,
yet you are wind.

You are the diver's clothes
lying empty on the beach.
You are the fish.

In the ocean are many bright strands
and many dark strands like veins that are seen
when a wing is lifted up.

Your hidden self is blood in those,
those veins that are lute strings
that make ocean music,
not the sad edge of surf,
but the sound of no shore.