Loving kindness 

is drawn to the love, 

as medicine goes to the pain 

it must cure. 

Where there is pain, 

the remedy follows: 

wherever the lowlands are, 

the water goes. 

If you want the water of mercy, 

make yourself low; 

then drink the wine of mercy and be drunk. 

Mercy upon mercy 

rises to your head like a flood. 

Don't settle on a single mercy, O Dear. 

Bring the sky beneath your feet 

and listen to celestial music everywhere. 

~ Mevlana Rumi ~ 

Mathnawi II: 1938-1942