Rumi on evolution
I am grateful to Isa Daudpota for providing this translation by Jalaluddin Rumi’s verses that elaborate on the theory of evolution: I have experienced…
What is this?
One day Rumi was sitting in his personal library with a group of his students gathered around him for his lecture. Suddenly, Shems entered…
Ready To Drink Every Flame
Rocking and rolling what have you been drinking please let me know you must be drunk going house to house wandering from street to…
Fana – story of a merchant and his parrot
The concept of fana and mystic union is wonderfully expressed by Mevlana Rumi in his Mathnawi and tells the story of a merchant and…
This world without Dr. Annemarie Schimmel
Last year, I came across a Charles Homer Haskins lecture that Dr Annemarie Schimmel delivered in 1993. Aside from the amazing events and milestones…
Let us fall in love again
Rumi’s lilting chant.. Let us fall in love again and scatter gold dust all over the world. Let us become a new spring and…
Mystical Music at one place…
Mystica Music contacted me and introduced their website that sells amazing music. I am not promoting their sales nor do I have any mandate…
Without clouds shedding tears
Without the eyes – two clouds – the lightning of the heart: The fire of God’s threat, how could it be allayed? How would…
Rumi on Chinese Art and Greek Art
The Prophet said, “There are some who see Me by the same Light in which I am seeing them. Our natures are ONE. Without…
Rumi’s ants
From Rumi’s Mathnawi – Part VI: 2955-2962 The spirit is like an ant, and the body like a grain of wheat which the ant…
Enthralled only by love
whenever you meet someone deep drunk yet full of wisdom be aware and watch this person is enthralled only by love anytime you see…
How long?
How long can i lament with this depressed heart and soul how long can i remain a sad autumn ever since my grief has…
In Love that Long
I am here, this moment, inside the beauty, the gift God has given, our love: this gold and circular sign means we are free…
The sign of intimate friendship
Rumi on the beauty of spiritually intimate associations.. It is a sign of intimate friendship when speech flows freely from the heart; without intimacy,…
When compassion fills my heart
I am happy when I am sad I am together when fallen apart like earth when I am silent I have thunder hidden inside…
I am only the house of your beloved
Rumi again… “I am only the house of your beloved, not the beloved herself: true love is for the treasure, not for the coffer…
In this game of chess
I was first seduced by love then put in a fire of agonies as i won the mastery of the beloved the beloved dropped…
Story-Water
I am posting two versions of Rumi’s captioned poem from the Mathnavi A story is like the water you heat for your bath. It…
the two insomnias
“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for those two…
The Verge of Tears
You make our souls tasty like rose marmalade. You cause us to fall flat on the ground like the shadow of a cypress still…