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All Jalāl ad-Din ar-Rumi Pages (350)

Eternal Light

Lesson 85: Eternal Light You brought me Eternal Light In your body's burning cup Laughing as I drank And grew wings of Fire. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of R… View »

All My Splendor (2)

Lesson 84: All My Splendor All my splendour is to burn in you To know this Fire that eats me Is eating itself, to be this Fire Dancing on my own bones. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by And… View »

The Voice

Lesson 83: The Voice What I tell about 'me' I tell about you The walls between us long ago burned down This voice seizing me is your voice Burning to speak to us of us. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (… View »

The Fire

Lesson 82: The Fire The Fire is one, one only, one always Bird beating red wings in each thing that lives I am not a voice, I am the Fire singing What you hear is crackling in you. - Jalal-u… View »

Your Name

Lesson 81: Your Name Patience makes my soul and robe burn Mine: everyone's. I say your name; my mouth breaks into flame – The two worlds blaze. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harv… View »

Lesson 80: My Rock My Rock, my Flower, Flower-Rock, Rock-Flower Dancer-Who-Does-Not-Move! Changeless Eruption! You sever my head, and Mind grows radiant: Push me underwater; Heart learns to tal… View »

A Knowledge Beyond Words 1 Comment

Lesson 79: A Knowledge Beyond Words I pull you to me by a knowledge beyond words You think we're meeting for the first time? I know Him in you. I see you completely You've eaten His food; the c… View »

He Had Arrived

Lesson 78: He Had Arrived He has arrived. He's with us A thousand secret flames are dancing. You laugh? You do not know yourself You could not laugh and know yourself. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (T… View »

This Fire

Lesson 77: This Fire This Fire I crackle in is You I burn as You, burning away myself... Mad lucidities! Triumphs without sound! Don't look for me; I am not here. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Transl… View »