awry

Let your love be disgraceful, crazy and wild.
If you're too holy and careful God will escape you.

this quote is all over the internet today; blogs, twitter, facebook; attributed to rumi. and i like the passage. but when i read it, i have a hard time putting the two lines together and that didn't seem like rumi to me.. most of his poems and writings make sense to me. so, i did a quick study on it. (ie. i typed it into google.)

as far as i can tell, and admittedly this is based on a very brief internet search, the closest thing i can legitimately find traced back to rumi is:

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be.

and that makes sense to me. it fits right in with my general state of mind.

i'll take it one step further though - i say, may everyone find love as i have. may everyone be as justifiably crazy, absent-minded and disgraceful as i am. and can we all just let each other be?

and as for the bastardized quote that's floating around the web? i guess that second half must have gotten tacked on there by someone and it stuck. i'll refrain from commentary on it. it sounds like something for someone sober to worry about.

d: tweet this: Let the lover be.
b: my crazy is justifiable.
g: a rumi awry led to a rumi a-right.