taste the wine!

until the juice ferments a while in a cask
it isn't wine.

There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds.
Don't think all ecstasies are the same.

Jesus was lost in his love for God,
his donkey was drunk with barley.

every object, every being
is a jar full of delight.

be a connoisseur
and taste with caution.

Any wine will get you high,
judge like a king ad choose the purest,
the ones unadulterated with fear,
or some urgency about 'what's needed.'

drink the wine that moves you
as a camel moves when it has been untied,

and is just ambling about.





Mathnawi IV, 2683-96
The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks