From Words to Ecstasy (11/6/16) The secret of Truth cannot be understood by asking questions, gathering information, or spending all of your wealth and belongings. If you haven’t cried for fifty years with bloody tears, if you haven’t burned your heart out, you will never find the way from words to More...
Your Value (10/30/16)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), Rumi Poetry
Your Value (10/30/16) Look in your soul for your lost heart. Ask for the peace and decision of your soul from your Beloved. There is the pleasure of the plant of Absence in sugarcane. But, look for that pleasure in your lips and on your teeth. Don’t stare More...
No Belief, No Heresy Remains (10/23/16) I have been dissolved like salt in the sea of purity. Neither faith nor doubt remains in me. No belief, no heresy remains. A shining star has appeared in my heart, and the seven layers of the sky have disappeared into that star. Rubailer, More...
The Soul of Truth (10/16/16) O One who changes the soul moment by moment into different shapes inside of the body! O One who is closer to me than my thought of these subtle points! Why should I think of the past, of the future? You are the taste More...
Absence Is the Real Treasure (10/9/16) Absence is Essence; everything else is an attribute. Absence is health; everything else is an illness. This world is a big headache, a grand illusion. Absence is the real treasure. Rubailer, Page 257, Rubai #1 More...
“And We Will Go That Way” (10/2/16) Rise, O lovers. Let us all ascend to the sky. We have seen this earth. Let us see the other one. No, no. Both gardens are beautiful and nice. Let us give up both of them and go to the Gardener. More...
Yet, Love Lasts Forever (9/23/16) Life is short. Breaths are numbered. Yet, Love lasts forever. We stretched our legs and laid down under the shade of the heart, Watching the plain of Love extending in front of us. Who cares if there are hundreds of days of resurrection on that More...
Water Is Never Afraid of the Fire (9/18/16) Love has ruined my heart. It is about time for the Sun to shine on my broken heart. That Sultan prayed for me, then He accepted His own prayer. When I heard that, I became so ashamed that I lost all control More...
Union and Separation (9/11/16) The one who ties the untied knot again Is laughing at himself as well as the world. They talk about union and separation. But, one cannot be united until he is separated. Rubailer, Page 226, Rubai #2 More...
It Is Worth It Today (9/4/16) It has been like an entire life for us to have seen Your face since early dawn. Today, Your beautiful face has become even more beautiful. How nicely You catch our heart. You have a different beauty on Your face today. Whatever that More...