Love is recklessness, not reason.
Reason seeks a profit.
Love comes on strong, consuming herself, unabashed.
Yet in the midst of suffering,
Love proceeds like a millstone,
Hard-surfaced and straight forward.
Having died to self-interest,
She risks everything and asks for nothing.
Love gambles away every gift God bestows.
-Jelaluddin Rumi, as quoted by Cynthia Bourgeault in The Wisdom Jesus
