Love puts reason to silence.

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Love puts reason to silence. Love is a perfect muzzle of evil suggestions; Without love who ever succeeded in stopping them? Be a lover, and seek that fair Beauty, Hunt for that Waterfowl in every stream! How can you get water from that which cuts it off? How gain understanding from what destroys understanding?

Source Masnavi, Book V, Story XI, §2 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Rumi, love silences endless reasoning and the “evil suggestions” of the ego, like a muzzle; he invites us to become lovers and to seek divine Beauty everywhere, elusive as a waterfowl pursued from stream to stream. Today, when your mind goes round in circles or keeps brooding, stop and make a concrete gesture of love for someone: let love take the place of thoughts.

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