Death of ego is painful...

Brother!

To be a lover you must have pain!

Where is your pain?

Sincerity and patience require
a man.

Where is the man?

How much longer will your invocation be
congealed and your meditation paralyzed?

Where
are passionate cries and a yellow face?

I am not looking for the elixir or gold.

Where
is a receptive piece of copper?

How can even a
lukewarm disciple attain passionate love?

What
then if he's cold?...



--Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Ode 2206
translated by William C. Chittick
The Sufi Path of Love - The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi
State University of New York Press, Albany, 1983