This week the whirling dervishes of the Mevlevi Order celebrated the Shebi-aru Sema in commemoration of Rumi's passing - "the wedding night of the Beloved."
In that spirit I offer the following reflections...
"When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are,you will keep saying again and again,this is certainly not like we thought it was!"-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
"No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God." - Rumi
Suleyman Hayati Dede, 'grandfather of the dervishes,' described the meditation practice of "the Turn" as follows:
"We do not turn for ourselves. We turn around in the way we do so that the light of God may descend upon the earth. As you act as a conduit in the Turn, the light comes through the right hand, and the left hand brings it into this world."
"Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything,and only the mystery and the journey remain."-- Rumi
