RUMI DAYS

The universe is a form of divine law, your reasonable father. When you feel ungrateful to him, the shapes of the world seem mean and ugly....

 Again, the sharp new moon blade. Again we walk a garden with the lily's clever talking around us. Green satin no tailor sews, trees pu...

The one who brings wine pours again, no need to ask. Do you ask the moon to rise and give its light? When ranks of soldiers dissolve, dis...

I sat long enough in fire. Now I am up to my neck in the water of union. You say, Up to the neck is not enough. Make your head your foot ...

There is nourishment like bread that feeds one part of your life, nourishment like light for another. There are many rules about restraint...

When I see your face, the stones start spinning. You appear. All studying wanders. I lose my place. Water turns pearly. Fire dies down and...

A human being is like the rod Moses held or the words that Jesus said. The outer is just a piece of wood, or mouth-sounds of a country dia...