Rumi Poems

Came Across some lovely Poems by Sufi Mystic Poet Rumi.
Here are a few of them

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy,
absentminded. Someone sober
will worry about things going badly.
Let the lover be.



This we have now

is not imagination.



This is not

grief or joy.



Not a judging state,

or an elation,

or sadness.



Those come and go.

This is the presence that doesn't.


There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that

mine.

O traveler, if you are in search of That
Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek That.


This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives.

This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth.

To be one with the truth for just a moment,
Is worth more than the world and life itself.