Love is Reckless, Not Reason

This is a poem from Jalal ad-Dīn Rumi, taken from: Teachings of Rumi (The Masnavi) The Spiritual Couplets of Jalaludin Rumi.

One of the greatest of Sufi poets, Jalal al-Din Rumi wrote poems in the 13th century which found a new audience in the U.S. in the 1990s. As always the words are included below

Love is reckless; not reason.
Reason seeks a profit.
Love comes on strong,
consuming herself, unabashed.

Yet, in the midst of suffering,
Love proceeds like a millstone,
hard surfaced and straightforward.

Having died of self-interest,
she risks everything and asks for nothing.
Love gambles away every gift God bestows.

Without cause God gave us Being;
without cause, give it back again.

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