Inner Garment of Love

A soul which is not clothed

with the inner garment of Love
should be ashamed of its existence.

Be drunk with Love,
for Love is all that exists.
Where is intimacy found
if not in the give and take of Love.

If they ask what Love is,
say: the sacrifice of will.
If you have not left your will behind,
you have no will at all.

Rumi

(The Rumi Collection ed. by Kabir Helminski p.40)