Look at Love
Look at Love - meaning Summary
Unity Through Mystical Love
Rumi celebrates mystical unity, urging readers to notice how opposites and separations collapse into intimate blending. The poem points to love as the force that fuses spirit with earth, known with unknown, life with afterlife, and enemies with friends. Through simple, natural images—water and fire, wolf and lamb, equinox—the speaker advises paying attention to this mingling, embodying sweetness and silence, and recognizing love as an arising from the heart.
Read Complete Analyseslook at love how it tangles with the one fallen in love look at spirit how it fuses with earth giving it new life why are you so busy with this or that or good or bad pay attention to how things blend why talk about all the known and the unknown see how the unknown merges into the known why think seperately of this life and the next when one is born from the last look at your heart and tongue one feels but deaf and dumb the other speaks in words and signs look at water and fire earth and wind enemies and friends all at once the wolf and the lamb the lion and the deer far away yet together look at the unity of this spring and winter manifested in the equinox you too must mingle my friends since the earth and the sky are mingled just for you and me be like sugarcane sweet yet silent don’t get mixed up with bitter words my beloved grows right out of my own heart how much more union can there be
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