Confused And Distraught

Again I am raging,I am in such a state by your soul that everybond you bind, I break, by your soul.I am like heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow;I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul. My joy is of your doing, my hangover of your thorn;whatever side

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I Am Only The House Of Your Beloved

‘I am only the house of your beloved,not the beloved herself:true love is for the treasure,not for the coffer that contains it.’The real beloved is that one who is unique,who is your beginning and your end.When you find that one,you’ll no longer expect anything else:that is both the manifest and the mystery.That one is the

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How Long

How long will you think about this painful life?How long will you think about this harmful world?The only thing it can take from you is your body.Don’t say all this rubbish and stop thinking.

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If I Weep

If I weep, if I come with excuses, my beloved puts cotton wool in his ears.Every cruelty which he commits becomes him, every cruelty which he commits I endure.If he accounts me nonexistent, I account his tyranny generosity.The cure of the ache of my heart is the ache for him; how shall I not surrender

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Zero Circle

Be helpless, dumbfounded,Unable to say yes or no.Then a stretcher will come from graceTo gather us up. We are too dull-eyed to see that beautyIf we say we can, we’re lying.If we say No, we don’t see it,That No will behead usAnd shut tight our window onto spirit. So let us rather not be sure

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The Time Has Come For Us To Become Madmen In Your Chain

The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain, toburst our bonds and become estranged from all;To yield up our souls, no more to bear the disgrace of such asoul, to set fire to our house, and run like fire to the tavern.Until we ferment, we shall not escape from this vat

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Laila And The Khalifa.

The Khalifa said to Laila, “Art thou really sheFor whom Majnun lost his head and went distracted?Thou art not fairer than many other fair ones.”She replied, “Be silent; thou art not Majnun!” If thou hadst Majnun’s eyes,The two worlds would be within thy view.Thou art in thy senses, but Majnun is beside himself.In love to

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Book1 Prologue

Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains,Lamenting its banishment from its home: ‘Ever since they tore me from my osier bed,My plaintive notes have moved men and women to tears.I burst my breast, striving to give vent to sighs,And to express the pangs of my yearning for my home.He who abides far away from his

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Only Breath

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not HinduBuddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the Eastor the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, notcomposed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world

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My Mother Was Fortune, My Father Generosity And Bounty

My mother was fortune, my father generosity and bounty; Iam joy, son of joy, son of joy, son of joy.Behold, the Marquis of Glee has attainted felicity; this city andplain are filled with soldiers and drums and flags.If I encounter a wolf, he becomes moonfaced Joseph; if I godown into a well, it converts into

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