Your Heart (6/29/2025)

Your Heart (6/29/2025)

With the wings of Your heart,

You flew to this desert plain of existence,

which melted in the greatness of Your heart’s expanse.

What is this small plain in comparison with Your heart?

All seven layers of the sky

are only the open palm of Your hand.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 3, rubai 1305, page 199.

Drunk with the Wine of Eternity (5/25/2025)

Drunk with the Wine of Eternity (5/25/2025)

One the Fire of the Heart blazes,

it burns the faithful as well as the unfaithful.

Once the Bird of Essence flies, all of existence disappears Continue reading “Drunk with the Wine of Eternity (5/25/2025)”

There is a Price to be Paid (4/20/2025)

There is a Price to be Paid (4/20/2025)

There is a place beyond faith and heresy

which is not for all the ones

who are just starting out young and fresh.

There is a price to be paid:

One has to give up one’s life and sacrifice one’s heart.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 3, rubai 1271, page 182.

Do You Know…? (3/9/2025)

Do You Know…? (3/9/2025)

O soul, do you know who your Beloved is?

O heart, do you know who your guest is?

O body which is using every trick to escape,

do you know who is pulling you?

Look and see. He is the one who is searching for you.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 3, rubai 1252, page 172.

See the Bloody Tears (1/12/2025)

See the Bloody Tears (1/12/2025)

See the bloody tears, the hundreds of torn shirts caused by Your grief.

Listen to all the yelling and screaming.

Look at the blood of my lungs,

smeared all over my face, my back, my front. Continue reading “See the Bloody Tears (1/12/2025)”

From the Heart (1/5/2025)

From the Heart (1/5/2025)

This clay body of mine is the glass for the heart.

My best thought is merely the raw wine of the heart.

A tiny grain of knowledge is nothing but a trap for the heart.

I am saying these words, but they come from the heart.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 3, rubai 1235, page 164.