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Rumi: The Messiah is within my heart and like an invalid, I roam

February 25, 2014 |

A poem of Mawlana Rumi, “Nah man beehodeh gerde koocheh.” If you would like to hear this song sung in the Sufi ecstatic style, here is a link to a rendering by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The accent is definitely … Read More

Rumi: Seek the science that unties for you this knot.

February 12, 2014 |

From Rumi:

Seek the science that unties for you this knot.

Seek it as long as there’s life in you still to be sought.

Leave that nothing that looks like it is something;

Seek that something that looks like nothing; … Read More

Rumi: Don’t sleep!

January 25, 2014 |

Poetry by Jalaluddin Rumi, calligraphy by Stewart J. Thomas, palmstone.com.  A popular translation of this passage reads:

“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you.

Don’t go back to sleep!

You must ask for what you really want.

Don’t … Read More