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All Jalāl ad-Din ar-Rumi Pages (350)

Ecstatic Breathing

Lesson 305: Ecstatic Breathing No Heaven or earth, just this mysterious place We walk in dazedly, where being here Or there, in time or not, are only Two motions of the same ecstatic breathing.… View »

Until They Climb

Lesson 304: Until They Climb No-one will know me until they climb Where I and they are no more Final Mountain where mind goes white To melt in garden after garden. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Trans… View »

Wild, Peaceful Days

Lesson 303: Wild, Peaceful Days Wild peaceful, days where the slightest wind Soars perfumed with your traces... I am in a heaven of One Unable to talk, not to talk. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Tra… View »

Sun on My Doorstep

Lesson 302: Sun on My Doorstep Reconciled to myself, I emerge into the world Bare of all thought, clear love in which The sun on my doorstep dances to your drum The ant walking into it is no le… View »

Eternity Briefly Trembles

Lesson 301: Eternity Briefly Trembles You hide me in your cloak of Nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of Being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your Eternity briefly tr… View »

Leaping

Lesson 300: Leaping Leaping up onto the roof My head split open On the moon. Crying for joy: not a sound. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi) View »

You Are My Spring

Lesson 299: You Are My Spring One night he said 'You are my spring: All these worlds are blossoming In you' I staggered: saw Each nebula my flower - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew H… View »

I Live in Him

Lesson 298: I Live in Him I live in him, am him, am him-as-me Living as me, with me, as me-with-him Ecstasy makes pronouns swim Snows melt; gardens start swarming. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Trans… View »

Soul Like a Flame

Lesson 297: Soul Like a Flame There is a soul like a flame; its smoke is greater than its light; When there's too much smoke, there's no more light in the house. Lessen that smoke, Flame will l… View »

Revelation

Lesson 296: Revelation Each moment, Revelation flashes from heaven to the soul: "How long will you live like dregs in wine. Rise up!" Your sins make you heavy like dregs; burn them in Love! Ris… View »