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All Jalāl ad-Din ar-Rumi Pages (350)

Invisible Rose Garden

Lesson 355: Invisible Rose Garden From what invisible rose garden was flung this rose whose perfume maddens me and makes me lucid? - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Yea… View »

This Rose

Lesson 354: This Rose In the driest whitest stretch of pain's infinite desert I lost my sanity and found this rose. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi) View »

Lesson 353: A Word Just one page remains of the Book of our life A Word is written in this Book, A Word radiant with tender Love, The beauty of this Word astounds even the moon, Eternal Life gl… View »

One Breath

Lesson 352: One Breath One breath from the breath of the Lover would be enough to burn away the world, To scatter this insignificant universe like grains of sand. The whole of the cosmos would… View »

Dawn

Lesson 351: Dawn Would setting cause any harm to the sun or moon? To you, my death seems a setting, but really it is dawn. Does the tomb seem a prison to you? It is the liberation of the soul.… View »

My Soaring Ascent

Lesson 350: My Soaring Ascent When on the day of my death you carry my bier Do not imagine my heart has remained in this world. Do not weep over me, do not say: "Oh, how sad, how sad!" That wou… View »

The Light of God 2 Comments

Lesson 349: The Light of God For he who is alive in the Light of God, The death of this carnal soul is grace. About this don't say anything either good or bad, Because this has transcended good… View »

God Is One

Lesson 348: God Is One Our death is our wedding with eternity. What is its secret? God is One. The sun divides itself Streaming through the different openings of the house; But when these openi… View »

When Lovers Die

Lesson 347: When Lovers Die When Lovers die in their journey, The spirit's king runs out to meet them. When they die at the feet of that moon, They all light up like the Sun. - Jalal-ud-Din… View »

Your Breath

Lesson 346: Your Breath I have died, time and time again, and Your breath has always revived me. If I die in You a thousand times more, I will die in the same way. I was scattered like dust, an… View »