Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.
RumiWhen you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. โฆPeople fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
RumiLove is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to 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. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.
Rumi