When people address God in words – in the form of intimate conversation, petition and pleading, gratitude, remorse and repentance, and so on – they are in a position of separateness from God. When they address God directly through the heart, and when they listen to him in the heart, they are in a position of union with God.

-Qushayri, “Risalah”

RUMI??

HOT!!

GORGEOUS GORGEOUS GORGEOUS POETRY!! so lovely it made me actually come back to my poor neglected blog n post it up so that my million readers can benefit n appreciate him! Wah!!

That which God said to the rose,

and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,

He said to my heart,

and made it a hundred times more beautiful.  

-Mathnawi [III, 4129]

From “Jewels of Remembrance,” by Rumi