In the Eternal Presence you are both Witness and Witnessed How you laugh now at all the language of “searching”! You have lifted up your head between Obliteration and Annihilation How you laugh at all the proud games of power! – Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
A Fish-Hooked Line
The actions of your body should define If to the good or bad you do incline The body is a reel that must obey The mind that pulls it like a fish-hooked line- Rumi
Rebirth..
I died as a mineral and became a plant; I died as a plant and rose to animal; I died as animal and I was a man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more I shall die as man to soar With angels blest. But even from an angel... Continue Reading →
The Influence Of Shams Al-Dīn on Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī.
The decisive moment in Rūmī’s life occurred on November 30, 1244, when in the streets of Konya he met the wandering dervish—holy man—Shams al-Dīn (Sun of Religion) of Tabrīz, whom he may have first encountered in Syria. Shams al-Dīn cannot be connected with any of the traditional mystical fraternities; his overwhelming personality, however, revealed to Jalāl al-Dīn the... Continue Reading →
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day. My eyes are like the sun that makes promises; the promise of life that it always keeps each morning. The living heart gives to us as does that luminous... Continue Reading →
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: جلالالدین محمد رومی), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (جلالالدین محمد بلخى), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (مولانا, "our master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (مولوی, "my master"), and more popularly simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian[1][7] Sunni[8] Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.[9] Rumi's influence transcends... Continue Reading →
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī 