A Safe Refuge

"Love is an infinite ocean, on which the heavens are but a flake of foam.
Know that the wheeling heavens are turned by waves of Love: were it not for Love, the world would be frozen and inanimate.
Every mote is in love with that Perfection, and hastening upward like a sapling...
Suppose the empire is the empire of the West and East: since it will not remain, deem it to be as fleeting as a lightening flash.
O you, whose heart is heedless and slumbering, know that the kingdom that does not remain until eternity is but a dream.
Consider what you will do with all your vanity and glory; for ultimately it will grip your throat like an executioner.
Know that even in this world there is a safe refuge...
A rational person does not see the various aspects of Love, yet the auspicious moon of Love does not wane."

Rumi (Vol.5, 3835-3932)

Commentary: Heedless and slumbering we may be. Love will wake us up.