A review by angelayoung
The Essential Rumi by Rumi

5.0

These are poems for life, life's paths mapped and walked and understood and retold. And they show how so many things have remained the same (comfortingly) for aeons (the poems were written in the 11th century). Of course they're in translation so something must have been lost along the way, but still they convey so much that is essential to us human beings:

from page 106 of my edition:

The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.