O My restless Heart ! Tell the truth ! What substance are you ?.......by Rumi

O My restless Heart ! Tell the truth !
What substance are you ?
Are you fire or water ?
Are you Human or pure spirit ?

From what direction have you come ?

What food have you eaten ?

What have you witnessed in annihilation ?
And why are you flying toward annihilation ?

Why are you uprooting me ?
Why are you planning to erase me ?
Why are you ambushing my intellect ?
And why are you defaming yourself ?

All animals and creatures
are afraid of nonexistence,
except you who are setting off
toward nonexistence.

Wayfaring with such energy
intoxicated , completely drunk
when do you heed any warning ?
Or buy anyone's sweet talk ?

O , My Heart Listen

If gold yells two thousand times " I AM GOLD !"
it won't find a buyer
as long as does not get out of the mine.

~ Rumi

The deliciousness of milk and honey 
is the reflection of the pure heart:

From that heart the sweetness 
of every sweet thing is derived.

The heart is the substance,
and the world the accident.

How should the heart’s shadow
be the object of the heart’s desire?

Is that pure heart the heart that is
enamored of riches or power,

or is submissive to this black earth
and water of the body,

or to vain fancies it worships in the darkness
for the sake of fame?

The heart is nothing
but the Sea of Light.

Is the heart the place of vision
of God–and then blind?

~ Rumi
Mathnavi III, 2265-9