Morning Coffee with Cappadocia…

For some reason, while enjoying my first cup of coffee this morning, I was thinking about my last trip to Konya to visit the tomb of Rumi for Shab-i Arus. After attending the official ceremony for the anniversary of this death–his “Wedding Night”–I took the travelers whom I had brought to his mausoleum (türbe) to visit the caves and fairy chimneys of Cappadocia. We climbed past this red-topped mosque and its slender minaret as the sun was setting on Mt. Erciyes–but to me it looked like the sun was just waking up…

The inner consciousness
of the saint
is the true mosque
where all should worship,
God lives there.

— Rumi