The Wine of Madness

Lesson 331: The Wine of Madness

Shatter open my skull, pour in it the wine of madness!
Let me be mad, as mad as You, mad with You, with us.
Beyond the sanity of fools is a burning desert
Where Your Sun is whirling in every atom; drag me there,
Beloved, drag me there, let me roast in Perfection!

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)