The Meaning of Love

Both light and shadow
are the dance of Love.
Love has no cause;
it is the astrolabe* of God’s secrets.
Lover and Loving are inseparable
and timeless.

Although I may try to describe Love
when I experience it, I am speechless.
Although I may try to write about Love,
I am rendered helpless;
my pen breaks and the paper slips away
at the ineffable place
where Lover, Loving and Loved are one.

Every moment is made glorious
by the light of Love.

---- from The Love Songs of Rumi

*An instrument used to determine the altitude of celestial bodies.