Rumi: The heart is your student
The heart is your student
for love is the only way we learn.
Night has no choice but to grab the feet of daylight.
It’s as if I see Your Face everywhere I turn.
It’s as if Love’s radiant oil
never stops searching
for a lamp in which to burn.
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Photo:
A view of the city of Mecca, circa 1887
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Quote and Recommended Reading:
'Rumi: Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance'
By Camille Adams Helminski (Author), Kabir Helminski (Translator)
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Description:
Jelaluddin Rumi is a spokesman for the religion of love and he conveys his message in the universal language of the heart. Beloved in the Middle East and Western Asia for the past seven centuries the West is now coming to know and love his poetic words and his compelling spiritual perspective. from which these selections have been taken can justifiably be considered the greatest spiritual masterpiece ever written by a human being. It draws its imagery from every aspect of life on earth to illustrate its spiritual themes.
'Rumi: Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance'
By Camille Adams Helminski (Author), Kabir Helminski (Translator)
Purchase Book:
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Description:
Jelaluddin Rumi is a spokesman for the religion of love and he conveys his message in the universal language of the heart. Beloved in the Middle East and Western Asia for the past seven centuries the West is now coming to know and love his poetic words and his compelling spiritual perspective. from which these selections have been taken can justifiably be considered the greatest spiritual masterpiece ever written by a human being. It draws its imagery from every aspect of life on earth to illustrate its spiritual themes.
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