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The Life and Spiritual Milieu of Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi

Rumi: Daylight, tr. by Kabir & Camille Helminski (Threshold Books, 1995) In the last decades of the Twentieth Century the spiritual influence of Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi is being strongly felt by people of diverse beliefs throughout the Western world. He is being recognized here in the West, as he has been for seven centuries in the Middle East and Western Asia, as one of the greatest literary and spiritual figures of all time. Different qualities of Rumi have been brought forth by a variety of new translations that have appeared during the nineteen-eighties. He has been presented as both refined and sensual, sober and ecstatic, deeply serious and extremely funny, rarefied and accessible. It is a sign of his profound universality that he has been so many things to so many people.

Al-Jalil: The Mighty

Al-Jalil: The Mighty; from Asma al-Husna -- The Most Beautiful Names of God, published by Threshold Society.

Al-Ahad: The One

Al-Ahad: The One; from Asma al-Husna -- The Most Beautiful Names of God, published by Threshold Society.

Jewels from Rumi, tr. by Kabir & and Camille Helminski

Excerpts from Jewels of Remembrance, passages from the Mathnawi of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, tr. by Kabir & Camille Helminski (Threshold Books, 1996).

Space, Cyberspace, and the Spaceless

The recognition is beginning to dawn that we are on the threshold (there's that word again) of a major change in human life. It's even being talked about on the evening news. Thirty years ago we might have thought that this change would come about through a revolution in consciousness. People would begin to wake up! To some extent we have woken up. At the beginning of this millenium we -- and I mean the population of this whole world -- are more conscious of and sensitive to issues of gender, race, human rights, and ecology. At the same time, we seem to have created a frantic pace of life for ourselves and sometimes it seems that the developed world has slipped into the trance of materialism. The purpose of life is to have fun, right?

Rumi: The World and the Body

This world is like a tree, and we are the half-ripe fruit upon it. Unripe fruit clings tight to the branch because, immature, it's not ready for the palace.

Rumi: On Vision

The one who is ruled by Mind, without sleeping, puts her senses to sleep, so that unseen things may emerge from the world of the Soul. Even in her waking state, she dreams dreams, and opens thereby the gates of Heaven.

Rumi: On Spirit

Day and night there is movement of foam on the Sea. You see the foam, but not the Sea. Amazing! We are dashing against each other like boats: our eyes are darkened though we are in clear water.

Rumi: A Prayer

May God have mercy on those who lead the way and those who come behind and those who fulfill their vows, and those who seek to fulfill them, with His Grace and bounty, His great benefits and favors!

Rumi: On Non-existence

The light of the senses and spirit of our fathers is not totally perishable like the grass, but, like the stars and moonbeams, they vanish in the radiance of the Sun.

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