A spiritual poem - Love's deepest form - Rumi

 

Love’s Deepest Form

The deepest form of love for Rumi, as a Sufi, involves an escape from the selfish impulses of the ego, the passing away and the passing away of passing away:

O my soul, I searched from end to end:
I saw in thee naught save the Beloved;
Call me not infidel, O my soul, if I say that thou thyself art He.
Ye who search of God, of God, pursue.
Ye need not search for God is you, is you!
Why seek ye something that was missing ne’er?
Save you, none is, but you are—where, oh, where?