For ages you have come and gone<br> courting delusion.<br>For ages you have run from the pain<br> and forfeited the ecstasy.<br>So come, return to the root of...
Dear Hur,<br>I don't own a book of Rumi poetry, but I do intend to.<br><br>I feel rather lazy, just letting you do all the work, but I am really loving it here...
Dear Annalee,<br><br>You're very welcome. You are the thanks. You don't have to have a Rumi book in order to post here. You can always write how you felt about...
O my soul, there is a link between your heart and mine.<br>And my heart is looking for that path.<br>My heart is clear and pure like water<br>And pure like...
Hello Nurvannah, <br>This 'spiritual yahoo world' is quite small really isn't it? I bumbed into John Symbolman44 somewhere the other day.<br><br>I will have to...
If I were the plaything of every thought<br>I'd be a fool, not a wise man.<br>If the Sun of Love was not my own <br>I'd be mournful like Saturn,<br> rising and...
O, how often have knowledge and wit<br>become as deadly to the wayfarer as any demon or bandit!<br>Most of those destined for Paradise are simple-minded,<br>so...
Like a mirror my soul displays secrets<br>I am not able to speak<br>but I am unable not to know.<br><br>I have become a fugitive from the body<br>fearful as to...
At last you have departed and gone to the Unseen<br>What marvelous route did you take from this world?<br>Beating your wings and feathers,<br>you broke free...
At last you have departed and gone to the Unseen<br>What marvelous route did you take from this world?<br>Beating your wings and feathers,<br>you broke free...
If anyone asks you<br>how the perfect satisfaction<br>of all our sexual wanting<br>will look, lift your face<br>and say,<br>like this.<br><br>When someone...
I used to want buyers for my words<br>now I wish someone would buy me away from words.<br><br>I've made a lot of charmingly profound images, <br>scenes with ...
What makes the Sufi? Purity of heart;<br>Not the patched mantle and the lust perverse<br>Of those vile earth-bound men who steal his name.<br>He in all dregs ...
...<br>Never, in sooth, does the lover seek without being sought by his beloved.<br><br>When the lightening of love has shot into this heart, know that there ...
Starting from June 12, every Tuesday at 6:30 pm I will host a weekly live "Rumi and Eastern Spirituality" program at the local Cambridge cable access station...
"One went to the door of the Beloved and<br>knocked. A voice asked, 'Who is there?'<br>He answered, 'It is I.' <br>The voice said, 'There is no room for Me and...
Dear Nikjoorobert,<br><br>The question is what does it mean when mystics say lover and beloved are one in love? Sufis call the oneness of lover and Beloved the...
Salam:<br><br> Then, why the should the Truth be associated/identified with an indivicual or a group of individuals (Hallaj, Shams, etc.).<br><br>Mansour...
Dear Mansoor,<br><br>It is the Truth that reveals Itself in countless forms as Hallaj, Shams, etc. The question is who is doing the association? The question...
Salam:<br><br>We understand our environment through our senses and the logic we apply to our perceptions. Characters such as Hallaj, Hallaj's teacher Sheikh...
Salam:<br><br>Please see the following translation of one of Molana (Rumi)'s poems:<br><br><br><br>When the rose is gone and the garden faded <br>you will no...
I like how your webpage looks. There is a nice contrast between the background, text color and pictures. It has plenty of info and you can spread it around in...
Praise to the emptiness that blanks out existence. <br>Existence:<br>This place made from our love for that emptiness!<br>Yet somehow comes emptiness,<br>this...
