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All Jalāl ad-Din ar-Rumi Pages (350)

Hollow Me Out

Lesson 56: Hollow Me Out How do I live when you're not here? Pain lives me, a wound speaks with my mouth. And when you return? Only you know How you hollow me out and dance in the hollow. -… View »

Lesson 55: Now You Are Nothing Sometimes a grief like storm-wind sweeps away All the words I found to bring to you I shake helpless, silent as a corpse 'Be happy' you say 'Now you are nothing'… View »

A Bead on Your String

Lesson 54: A Bead on Your String My only safety; this shaky soaring That skins all hope, all desire... All I am is a bead on your string Keep turning me with one finger. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi… View »

Freed from Grief

Lesson 53: Freed from Grief Become the prey of God and be freed from grief Enter your own being, hurt holds you captive Know your life throws a veil over your path Linger with yourself, you'll… View »

Be Grateful

Lesson 52: Be Grateful Whatever grief longing for him brings Whatever blood Love mixes in his wine Be grateful; there's one worse fate – Never seeing him once. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translate… View »

In My Own Ruin

Lesson 51: In My Own Ruin Battered; ill; aghast – Lost in my own ruin – Sometimes I am weak enough To enter you. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi) View »

Go Away

Lesson 50: Go Away Yesterday he came to me I shouted 'Go away' Grace danced towards me I shut my door. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi) View »

Take This Stone

Lesson 49: Take This Stone You rest in my arms like a lute I sing for you like a lover. You want to break this mirror? Take this stone. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from… View »

Like a Drum

Lesson 48: Like a Drum You are the Sea of fire; we, your foam Flaming, falling with each wave... Beat us, Lord, with hands bloody with love We gape between your hands like a drum. - Jalal-ud… View »

Knowing

Lesson 47: Knowing Stop learning, start knowing. The rose opens, opens And when it falls Falls outward. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi) View »