RUMI DAYS

A donkey turning a millstone is not trying to press oil from sesame seed. He is fleeing the blow that was just struck and hoping to avoid...

You that love lovers, this is your home. Welcome. In the midst of making form, love made this form that melts form, with love for the door...

Moses ran after the shepherd. He followed the bewildered footprints, in one place moving straight like a castle across a chessboard. Then s...

Listen to presences inside poems. Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.

Who is luckiest in this whole orchestra? The reed. Its mouth touches your lips to learn music. All reeds, sugarcane especially, think only ...

A human being is essentially a spirit-eye. Whatever you really see, you are that.

The King of Tabuk went on like this, praising Imra'u 'l-Qays, and talking theology and philosophy. Imra'u 'l-Qays kept sil...