Discourses of Rumi

130 V DISCOURSES OF RUMIa day. Both see a loaf of bread. The full one seesonly more food, but the hungry person sees life,itself. To the hungry, this bread is a goblet, andthe life it brings is wine. Such wine cannot beknown except through hunger and yearning.Acquire this appetite so you will not only see theappearances of form, but will find the Belovedeverywhere.The forms of this world are cups. Science, artand knowledge are inscriptions upon the cup.When the cup is broken, those inscriptions disappear.Therefore, those who drink the wine see“the eternal reality, the deeds of holiness...”Anyone asking a question must first come tothe awareness that their knowledge is incomplete,and secondly that there is wisdom they knownothing about. Hence, the saying, “Asking is halfof knowing.”But there must always be one in this worldwho knows. Everyone looks to someone, becauseultimately we are looking for God. But there mustalways be one who can distinguish those who arehitting the mark from those who have been struckby the arrow of someone else’s bow.