Love Is the One

Lesson 187: Love Is the One

Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love.
By my passion of love for Love
I have been ground sweet as sugar.
O furious Wind, I am only a straw before you;
How could I know where I will be blown next?
Whoever claims to have made a pact with Destiny
Reveals himself a liar and a fool;
What is any of us but a straw in a storm?
How could anyone make a pact with a hurricane?

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)