I want burning.

 The one and only RUMI, translated by Coleman Barks


"I don't hear the words

they say. I look inside at the humility.

That broken-open lowliness is the reality,
not the language! Forget phraseology.
I want burning, 'burning'.
                 Be friends
with your burning. Burn up your thinking
and your forms of expression!

.....I can't say what's happened.
     What I'm saying now
is not my real condition. It can't be said.

....When you look in a mirror,
you see yourself, not the state of the mirror.
The flute player puts breath into a flute,
and who makes the music? Not the flute.
The flute player!
                 Whenever you speak praise
or thanksgiving....it's always like

this dear..... simplicity.When you look in a mirror,
you see yourself, not the state of the mirror."