These snippets of poetry by Rumi don't really belong here. And yet this is where they best belong. It's funny how what the Sufi poets say echo what Jesus said, and Muhammad, and Buddha, and Lao Tzu, and the Hindu scriptures in the Bhagavad Gita, and the Zen teachings of Bodhidharma, and the esoteric school of thought in the Jewish Kabbalah, and the writings of the mystic Meister Eckhart. The names they use are different, the concepts they employ are different, the methods they prescribe too; but go beyond the langauge, and they're describing the same experience. The same condition.
If that sounds like nonsense, no problem, just enjoy his fabulous wordsmithing
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