RUMI had entered my life at various stages..the last welcome for Rumi was in Kuala Lumpur when my good friend MYC gave me a copy of the book, The Gift an interpretation of Rumi's poems.
Various friends from Iran came and went but RUMI stayed.
Yesterday a friend talked about the six books of Rumi and a good English translation and sent me the link.
As many of the serious students of RUMI had warned me, you dont just read RUMI in translation but truly need help from experts how to interpret the writings.
Yesterday I was also able to get Spiritual Verses by Jalal ad-Din Rumi. it is an audible book which i could listen in my long layovers or long flights, perhaps as I fly over Iran one of these days.
The Little Poet said to me : la petite poete de Côte Sauvage
No need to raise your voice, All that will happen is that you loose your voice.
This little descendant of Middle East and ancient Europe, how did she acquire the spirit of Rumi?
I remember the Vice-Director of the International School of Kisses of Baracoa, saying one day:
Do not ask him, where he comes from, many countries claim him as his own.
The Indian mystics say
If you think you are very important, your absence will not make the world stop tomorrow, it will go on and in a little while there would be no one left that remembers you.
It is now, the time to LOVE and let us hear what RUMI had to say
Love lives on in our hearts, until it is also silenced.
There are no memories of love that persists. You need a beating heart for Love to flourish.
I am waiting for you , even if I do not know your face
You bring the world to me
As the Kalahari San once said. I will turn my ears backwards to listen
for the story that is waiting for me ..
To EB who told me about The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak which I immediately downloaded.
So much to learn ...
