Discourses of Rumi

304 V DISCOURSES OF RUMII said to my heart,“How is it you are barred from the serviceOf He whose name you bless?”My heart replied,“You misread the signs.I am constantly in His service,You are the one astray.”Wherever you are, no matter what may happen,always strive to be a lover, a passionate lover.Once love has become your property you will bea lover eternally, in the grave, at the resurrection,or in Paradise, for ever and ever. When you havesown wheat, wheat will surely grow, stocks ofwheat will fill the shed, loaves of wheat will fillthe oven.When Majnun wanted to write a letter toLaila, he took a pen in his hand and wrote:Your name is on my tongue,Your image is within my sight,Your memory fills my heart,Where, then, can I write?Your image dwells in my sight, Your namenever leaves my tongue, Your memory occupiesthe depths of my soul, so where am I to write, seeingthat You are here in all these places? The penbroke, and the page was torn.