“Somewhere beyond right and wrong there is a Garden. I will meet you there.” – Rumi, 13th Century Afghan Poet
Rumi nailed it: the way Jesus lived. Life, not organized attendance religion. Love, not self-love, not rules, not narcissism or careless self-righteousness. Reality, not talking heads. Z axis, not X or Y axis. Tree of life, not tree of knowledge of good and evil. That’s where the garden thrives.
Rumi directly referred to Jesus as “the fountain of life.“ He wasn’t wrong.
Jalal al-Din Rumi, also known as Mowlana or Mevlana, was a renowned Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic who lived from 1207 to 1273. He was born in Balkh, present-day Afghanistan, which was then part of the Persian Empire.
Rumi’s family fled the Mongol invasion when he was young, traveling extensively through Muslim lands before settling in Konya, Anatolia (present-day Turkey) in 1228. He spent most of his adult life in Konya, where he composed all his works and eventually died on December 17, 1273.
Rumi was a prolific writer, composing approximately 65,000 verses in his lifetime.
Not the least of which is this:
“Somewhere beyond right and wrong there is a Garden. I will meet you there.”
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“Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid.” A good thing, not a controversy I think.
