Love is reckless

Love is reckless; not reason.
Reason seeks a profit.
Love comes on strong, consuming herself, unabashed.

Yet in the midst of suffering
Love proceeds like a millstone,
hard surfaced and straight-forward.

Having died to self-interest,
she risks everything and asks for nothing.
Love gambles away every gift God bestows.

Without cause God gave us Being;
without cause give it back again.
Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion.

Religion seeks grace and favor,
but those who gamble these away are God's favorites,
for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the
door of gain and loss.

By Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
From "The Ruins of The Heart"
Translated from Persian by Kabir Helminski
Threshold Books