"If we are a mystery, then avoid this alley.
If you can't tear off your clothes,
Don't come to this stream.
This place from which all emanates
Is no place for cowards, so continue on your way.
But if you catch the scent of what awaits you here,
And the fragrance draws you near,
Then come, please come.
If you would tear off all your clothes,
Jump right in and drawn,
In these waters you'll be lost, but Love is found.
For this is where the heart exist, and all road lead to this.
Here they begin and then return.
So come, please come.
- Mevlana -


"Someone once asked to Mevlana: If you believe in silence,
why have you done nothing but talk and talk and write and dance and sing?"
He laughed and said:"The luminous One inside me has never said a word."