The Soul is Here for its Own Joy

An eye is meant to see things.
The soul is here for its own joy.
A head has one use: for loving a true love.

Legs: to run after.

Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,
for learning what men have done and tried to do. Mysteries are not to be solved.

The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

-Jelaluddin Rumi

from The Essential Rumi

Translation by Coleman Barks. p. 107