Rumi used paradoxical language in his poetry. Whenever I read his poetry, I find myself searching for the meaning of those words.
In this poem, I think he is suggesting that, when a person feels wanted and loved, there is a sense of belonging. A person can surrender to love, when they are cared for, belonging in a relationship.
The reciprocity of love makes one whole, healing them. The title proposes that love is quiet and a person has to listen closely, still themselves and their thoughts to hear the call addressing them. In this sense, love is a mindful and attentive way of living.
Love whispers in my ear,
“Better to be a prey than a hunter.
Make yourself My fool.
Stop trying to be the sun and become a speck!
Dwell at My door and be homeless.
Don’t pretend to be a candle, be a moth,
so you may taste the savor of Life
and know the power hidden in serving.”
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About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
Teacher as Transformer 
This is lovely!
Thank you.
Aww, the savor and the power of being a server. It is an art!
It is Marie.
Love Rumi. One of my favorites.
He is one of mine, too.
Knowing Rumi, I’m sure his lover was God, however he perceived it to be. Yet you make a good point – love Does heal. In time, for some of us. It’s funny too, Ivon, I’ve been reflecting a bit on this these past couple of days – just how damaged I was when I was younger, and how loving and being loved unconditionally from my husband has relaxed, matured, and deepened us both as human beings. It has also increased our own individual self regard. Now that was likely the kind of partner I was looking for all those years ago, but I just didn’t know myself well enough to get it right the first time. Or the second. Third truly was and is an everlasting charm, going on 25 years now. Aloha.
I agree Bela that Rumi would have understood his lover as God. When we stop moving, love can find us. I had to find the right person, as well and it is 40 years now. Take care and Aloha.
❤