In love

By Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

In love, aside from sipping the wine of timelessness,

  nothing else exists.

There is no reason for living except for giving one's life.

I said, "First I know you, then I die."

He said, "For the one who knows Me, there is no dying."

Excerpt from Rumi, 'Thief of Sleep' translated by by Shahram Shiva