This is how we are with wine and beautiful food… we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward. – Rumi

You’ve been walking the ocean’s edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper! – Rumi

If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

…my heart sinks like a comb into wave after wave of your silky hair. – Rumi