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Paperback copy of The Forty Rules of Love book by Elif Shafak placed on a soft marble surface with roses, prayer beads, and a candle in warm natural light.

The Forty Rules of Love | Book Review | Elif Shafak | 2009

A Story That Didn’t Leave Me the Same I picked up the book, The Forty Rules of Love, expecting something gentle and philosophical. I wasn’t wrong — but I also wasn’t prepared for how deeply it would stay with me. It didn’t hit me all at once. Instead, it settled in slowly, like a thought Read more…

Be like a tree, Let the dead leaves drop. - Rumi

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'You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.' ~ Rumi

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'Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.' ~ Rumi

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You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!

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Review of Farrukh Dhondy's Rumi A New Translation

Book Review: ‘Rumi: A New Translation’ by Farrukh Dhondy

The branch exists only to bear the fruit The knowledge of which resides in the root Would a gardener plant and tend the vine Without the promise of the grape and wine?  Before this truth let all your reason pause What you thought was effect, is but the cause.