Peace, Kindness and Abundance (11/24/2024) You are in the place of sorrow, struggle and cruelty. When you plunge into us and annihilate yourself, you will have peace, kindness and abundance. If you remain true, everything we have will be yours. If not, still, we will accept your wrongs as being More...
From the Land of Soul (11/17/2024) O Beloved whose light comes from behind the curtain, Your light and warmth are like summer for us. Take us to the rose garden. Our hearts are fiery like summer. O salve for the eyes of my soul, where did You go? Come, come, More...
The Image of the Beloved (11/10/2024) Tonight is the night when secrets are revealed, clean and lucid. The secrets in my heart are nothing but the image of the Beloved. O night, don’t pass quickly. I have a lot of work to do. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, More...
Birds Don’t Have to Worry (11/3/2024) O Cupbearer, O Cupbearer, today You and I exist here and have fallen into deep water. Let’s find out who knows how to swim. If a flood covers the Earth with waves as big as camels, the birds don’t have to worry. They think More...
Despite My Yelling (10/27/2024) He kept me burning despite my yelling and crying out to Him. When I kept silent, He burned me like the silent ones. He drove me beyond all boundaries, brought me back to the center, then set me on fire again. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The More...
Sometimes (10/20/2024) O Sultan of our body and soul! O One who makes us sometimes smile, sometimes grimace, O One who puts salve on the eyes of our body and soul! O Beautiful One, the moon is embarrassed seeing Your light, Your height. Let our blood be sacrificed to More...
Neither Form Nor Direction (10/13/2024) We inherited a boat from Noah as the prize of deliverance. It sails through storms on the sea of life. Thoughts, images, sorrows and pleasures are the plants which grow from this sea. Like the heart, they have neither form nor direction. The Rubaiyat of More...
The Time of Union Has Come (10/6/2024) Assume I am a thorn, a bad one. But, the thorn and rose go together. When a jeweler weighs gold, he puts barley as a weight on the other side of the scale. Actions go with ideas. Goods come from the Earth. More...
Break the Seal. Free Love. (9/29/2024) That divine gift, the Water of Life, is invisible, concealed in this clay body. The self has put a seal on your heart, and Love stays imprisoned there. Break the seal. Free Love. What are you afraid of? There is a secret path in More...
Maybe You Will Get to Know Us (9/22/2024) O friend, if you do good to others, you better yourself a hundred times over. Even if you turn your face this way, maybe you will get to know Us. I spread water on the ground to settle the dust and More...