The Source of the Music

"You have no kinsmen, but yourself, O distraught one.
The seeker was always praying intently, without receiving any overt response, but he was seeking in secret from the Divine Grace.
Although neither a heavenly voice, nor a Divine Messenger was ever beside him, yet the ear of his hope was filled.
His hope was always saying, without words, "Come!" and that call was sweeping away all weariness from his heart.
Saying, "Come to the moon, and leave the dust behind; Love, the King, calls you: return with all speed!"
Let the pearl shedding sea of God break into surge: today ask kindly after this ailing seeker.
This Mathnawi is only the wailing music that the author has uttered;
Yet everyone that has insight knows that the lamentations issuing at this end, are inspired from that end.
The noise of this reed is from God's breaths; the spirits outcry is from God's outcry.
If the reed had no contact with That lip, the reed could not fill the world with music sweet as sugar.
The rubies in the mountains heart are brokers and advertisers of God: the orchards in their laughter of full blown beauty are filled to the brim with the Divine One."

Rumi (Vol. 6 1983-2012)

Commentary: If you long for God, and truth and reality, Rumi tells us that God truth and reality are calling to us. And the music that we love, and the beauty that we see, are all invitations from the Beloved.