Essence of Rumi

Title: Essence of Rumi
Author: John Baldock
Literary Criticism: 1688141
ISBN: 9781784284039
Publisher: Arcturus
Published: 2017
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Section: Literary Criticism | Medieval
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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Get drunk on Love, for Love is all that exists.
(Divan-i Shams-i Tabriz 455: A1:54)

The thirteenth-century saint Jalaluddin Rumi has been called the greatest mystical poet of any age, and his work compared to that of Dante and Shakespeare. Over a period of 25 years he composed over 70,000 verses of poetry on the subjects of divine love, mystic passion and ecstatic illumination.

Rumi was also a master story-teller, as this comprehensive exploration of his work so rewardingly reveals. Primarily an introduction to Rumi and the path of self-surrender, this book is arranged in such a way that it guides the reader from the poet's outer, historical world to the inner, spiritual essence of his teaching.

The Essence of Rumi offers us the opportunity to overcome the limitations of our human view of the world and transform our sensory eye into the poet's all-seeing Ocean of Reality.