A review by maketeaa
The Essential Rumi by John Moyne, Coleman Barks, Rumi

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

The beloved is in your veins though he or she may seem to have a form outside you.

reading rumi's works feels like being washed clean, turned inside out, becoming a vessel for the emptiness he tells us to embrace in ourselves. what are we if not reeds separated from the ground? flutes playing the music of our homesickness, unaware that the beautiful sound of out existence is just a result of being apart from our true love? rumi speaks of a love that hits a part of you waiting to he spoken to, a love that loves the artist more than the painting, a love that cares not for possession but of being possessed, a love that cuts the bounds we have formed with all our unhappinesses and letting that love consume us whole. it is a love that we must turn towards, the stream running by our face while we believe we are mad with thirst, the shout we must shout from the mountain of the world to enjoy the echo that comes back. what a beautiful collection of works. rumi makes me look around at my life and see not just the world, but also my own soul, split apart into rays by the one who has created us.