Quotes from Jami

if you have never trodden the path of love, go away and fall in love; then come back and see us.

The ravens of the night were hush'd, The bird of dawn began his lay, The rose-bud, newly wakened, blush'd To feel the touch of springing day; And bade the roses round unveil, Roused by the warbling nightingale. The jasmine stood all bathed in dew; Wet were the violet's lids of blue. - Zuleika's Dream

Without a veil your countenance cannot be seen, Without a veil your eyes cannot be seen. Unless one is experiencing complete enlightenment The source of the sun cannot be seen.

On the lute of my heart plays only one song of love: Because of this melody, from head to foot, I am in love. Truly, for ages I'll never be able To pay what I owe for one moment of love.

And if it would be a restless nightingale, be a nightingale! You are a part and Reality is the Whole, So for a few days only meditate on the Whole, be the Whole! If in your heart a rose appears, be a rose!

Each attractive form that shows its face to you, Destiny will soon steal it from the eyes of you. Go and give your heart to someone who in all turns of existence Always has been with you and always will be with you.

O, man of importance, perhaps with money and offspring you may start, But it is clear that with all these after a short time you will have to part. Happy is he who connects his heart to the Beloved. And with heart and soul is tied to the folk of heart.

O, radiance has been given to the mirror because of Your face. No one has ever seen a mirror without Your face. No, no! It is because of Your grace, That in every mirror You Yourself appear and not Your face.

O, heart! How long will you search for perfection in schools? How long will you try to perfect philosophy, geometry and all its rules? Every thought which is no remembrance of God is an evil inspiration, Be modest before God! How long these evil thoughts? (Leave them to fools!)

Neighbour, companion, fellow traveller, all are He! In mendicant's habit and in king's satin, all are He! In the assemblies of separation and in the private places of union, By God, all are He, once again: by God, all are He

Being manifests Itself in everything. If you want to discover Its state in everything, Go and see how the bubbles are on top of the wine: The wine is they in them and they are wine in the wine!

T was mine to shrink, withstand in time, For, while I sinned, I knew my crime. Oh! Wretched, wavering heart! As vain Thy wild resentment as thy pain: One thought alone expels the rest, One sole regret distracts my breast, O'ermastering and subduing all More than my crime, more than my fall: Are not shame, fear, remorse, forgot, In that one thought- He loves me not!

I never knew I could feel so much pain, and yet be so in love with the person causing it.