The Essence Of Rumi

Get drunk on Love, for Love is all that exists. Unless you make Love your
business, you will not be admitted to the Beloved. (Divan-i Shams-i Tabriz
455: A1:54) The thirteenth-century saint Jalaluddin Rumi has been called
the greatest mystical poet of any age, and his work compared to that of
Dante and Shakespeare. Over a period of 25 years he composed over 70,000
verses of poetry on the subjects of divine love, mystic passion and
ecstatic illumination. Rumi was also a master story-teller, as this
comprehensive exploration of his work so rewardingly reveals. Primarily an
introduction to Rumi and the path of self-surrender, it is arranged in such
a way that it guides the reader from the poet's outer, historical world to
the inner, spiritual essence of his teaching. The Essence of Rumi offers us
the opportunity to overcome the limitations of our human view of the world
and transform our sensory eye into the poet's all-seeing Ocean of Reality