The Bedford Anthology of World Literature Book 2; The Middle Period, 100 C.E.-1450

ONLY BREATH RUMI

I have known about Rumi for about five years now and have read a lot of his work, which is absolutely great and refreshing to the soul. Every time I need to get in touch with my spiritual side I just pick up one of his books to help me grasp what is important to me. He is just a great teacher that preaches with love and wisdom, bringing out the true beauty of Islam and its true fundamentals that has just been so distorted over a long period of time. Although Rumi is Muslim he talks of all kinds of religion with love and wisdom, but never negative or that one is better than the other and that is just unheard of. One of my favorite Rumi poems is:

ONLY BREATH---
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or Zen. Not any religion
Or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not... read more