Recent Posts from This Journal

• A Selection From Rum, "translated" by Barks

  There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of Spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how…

• Symeon the New Theologian - How is it I can love You

  How is it I can love You      within me,      yet see You from afar? How is it I embrace You      within myself,      yet see You spread across the…

• Abu-Said Abil-Kheir - Love came and emptied me of self

  Love came and emptied me of self, every vein and every pore, made into a container to be filled by the Beloved. Of me, only a name is left, the rest…