Quote of the day by Rumi: “Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by…”

Persian poet and mystic Rumi, known for his Sufi-inspired works, emphasized inner peace through detachment from material ...

Quote of the day by Rumi: 'You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop'

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi master, left behind a legacy of profound wisdom. His famous ...
The Red & Black

Poet releases 13th-century Rumi poems 'from their cages'

On May 2, 1977, Coleman Barks dreamed he was sleeping on a bluff above the Tennessee River when a ball of light rose off an island across from where he was sitting. In the dream, Barks woke up. The ...
Publishers Weekly

RUMI: THE BOOK OF LOVE: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Though his English-only translations of the Sufi poet Jelaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) have sold hundreds of thousands of copies, Barks is anything but celebratory in his preface to this new collection: "I ...