Selected Poems of Rūmī (2011) by Jalāl’l-Dīn Rūmī & the States of Grace
“The soul says to her base earthly parts, ‘My exile is more bitter than yours: I am celestial.’”
Where Books and Readers Come Together
“The soul says to her base earthly parts, ‘My exile is more bitter than yours: I am celestial.’”
“Suppose a vast number of civilizations are distributed throughout the universe, on the order of the number of detectable stars. Lots and lots of them. Those civilizations make up the body of a cosmic society. Cosmic sociology is the study of the nature of this super-society” (p 12).
“She was intoxicated by her brilliant, crimson dream until a bullet pierced her chest.”
“Well, to me, that’s what love is. Not that anyone can understand me, though.”
“Her stare often moved me into speechlessness, captivated me into forgetfulness, and I longed to know what she was thinking without her ever having to say a single word. But I knew such things were impossible for me.”
A story
“Learn from your dreams, because the stuff of time and space is no different. Forget your past. Pitch the logic. And drop the cursed hows.”
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Dr. Azar Nafisi is a memoir of a woman teaching literature in Islamic Iran.
If you want to find out what REALLY happened to Rambo, then you’ll just have to read the book.








