Tao Te Ching

“It was just a glance, but it became a fountain that drowned my heart... and if our joy could be worthy of that Moonlight and Sunshine, wouldn't it be for the face of that beauty?”

— Rumi مولانا جلال‌الدین محمد بلخی 1207 – 1283 CE via Helminski and Rezwani
(Rumi Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī)
from Love's Ripening