For Elita, Fur Elita lol – Why Noah was considered a Prophet…
There is much weeping when lovers leave each other, whole art-forms devoted to parting, but what about when one who has known attention from the mystery grows aloof from that guidance? How said is that separation? What about someone who dies without every knowing the presence?
That presence can sometimes take a form of disaster, a deepened awareness, or something more hidden. It may come when you are sitting quietly at home with your children and your wife, or in devotion with which you do your work.
Remember to move within and live as close as you can to that, and if you feel yourself moving apart from it, don’t go to others for companionship. A child cries until the mother comes. Be that demanding. Listen to music and song until your Divine Friendship revives. Listen to those who achingly long for God. Noah was a prophet because he so constantly feared losing the closeness.
The intellectual is always showing off,
the lover is always getting lost.
The intellectual runs away.
afraid of drowning;
the whole business of love
is to drown in the sea.
Intellectuals plan their repose;
lovers are ashamed to rest.
The lover is always alone.
even surrounded by people;
like water and oil, he remains apart.
The man who goes to the trouble
of giving advice to a lover
get nothing. He’s mocked by passion.
Love is like musk. It attracts attention.
Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.
/Rumi’s Divan of Shems of Tabriz/