Spiritual wine is another substance....BY Rumi

The intellectual quest, 
though fine as pearl or coral,
is not the spiritual search.

The spiritual search is on another level;
spiritual wine is another substance!

The spiritual path wrecks the body
and afterwards restores it to health.

It destroys the house to unearth the treasure
and with that treasure builds it better than before.

~ Rumi
Rumi J. Mathanwi I
translated by C Helmminski, K Helmminski
In: Rumi: Daylight.
Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala, 1999