A Monastery…

Posted on February 4, 2015 by admin

Mevlevi Tekke in Lebanon (Photo: Emily O'Dell)

Every week, my Iranian friends and I analyze and discuss one of Rumi’s poems in the original Persian. Here are a few of the verses we focused on this week:

A dervish must know pain’s reality
And from the depths of pain must rise, a (hu)man.
In all directions, they build yet again another monastery:
The universe is a monastery; there only needs be a true human…

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