Sufism

A Mine of Rubies – Rumi

Friday, August 19th, 2016

I looked inward … And the beauty of my own emptiness … filled me till dawn. It enveloped me like a mine of rubies … Its hue clothed me in red silk ~ Rumi

…. As translated by Jonathan Star

Majesty: Presence That Abides – Rumi

Monday, August 15th, 2016

… “Majesty is that, composite attention felt as a presence, dawn, a company of friends, a splendor that is prior to, and the source of, the universe. Rumi says it is a state of awareness best spoken of in terms of what it is not …” ~ Coleman Barks

Here’s Rumi on Majesty … reminding us of This that we have – now! … brought to us by Coleman Barks …

Awareness Comes As An Unexpected Visitor – Rumi

Sunday, August 7th, 2016

Rumi’s very popular poem (The Guest House) about … “momentary awareness” and meeting all of its various manifestations as “unexpected visitors” …our “guides from beyond !” …

A profound and exquisite translation by Coleman Barks.

Love Dervishes – Rumi

Friday, July 8th, 2016

It takes the courage of inner majesty to stand in this doorway, where there’s no celebrating good fortune, where talk of luck is embarrassing. However your robe of patches fits is right. … Don’t pretend something other than truth. Measuring devices don’t work in this room where the love dervishes meet. No tradition grows here […]

The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems

Friday, July 8th, 2016

The Soul of Rumi is renowned poet Coleman Barks’ first major assemblage of newly translated Rumi poems since his bestselling The Essential Rumi. Coleman Barks presents entirely new translations of Rumi’s poems, published for the first time in The Soul of Rumi. The poems range over the breadth of Rumi’s themes: silence, emptiness, play, God, […]

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