“Love is the Alchemy of the East.” Rumi
Author: Mevlana, Rumi
Translation: Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi
Year Published: 1999
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Welcome to Rumi’s world of Love. We follow a passionate stream of quatrains as we witness Rumi’s struggle to live without boundaries, and with a love that has inflamed his heart. As we do, we feel our own hearts grow warmer, softer and brighter with the hope that love brings. This book is full of short, quick and impactful poetry--my favourite kind! It shows that even one sentence can change your world.
Beyond a hundred steps of wisdom,
I will be free from good and bad.
Behind the veils I will find
Such splendour, such Beauty
That I will fall in love
With Myself.
-Rumi 1999, 73