Reason said: “Stop there!
In surrender there are only thorns!”
Love replied: “O Reason!
It is you who are full of thorns!”
Be still, and pluck the thorn
of existence from your heart,
that you may come to see
the rose gardens that lie within.
– Jalaluddin Rumi, Ghazal 132, ll. 7-8
[my translation]
