When the mind believes what it thinks, it names what cannot be named and tries to make it real through a name. It believes that its names ...

     A Sacred Blasphemy Be off and know That the way of lovers is opposite all other ways. Lies from the Friend Are better than truth and ki...

  Salaam and Greetings of Peace: On December 17th, 1273 AD, Mevlana Jalal al-din Rumi died at Konya. The 17th of December is thus called She...

     LOVE IS NOT DESIRE.  It is a great thing to find out this for oneself. And if love is not desire then what is love? Love is not mere at...

    Awake awhile. It does not have to be Forever, Right now. One step upon the Sky’s soft skirt Would be enough. Hafiz, Awake awhile. Just o...

    Come here a moment, sit with me, don't sleep tonight, Consider well my heart’s unhappy plight, tonight; And let your face’s presence...

      There is nowhere at all which is devoid of the Way.     — Huang Po It has often been said that the root illusion is the subject/objec...

    The world is no more than the Beloved’s single face, In the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist. Each place, each moment,...