"Listen to presence inside poems.
Let them take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
And never leave the premises."
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī
'Rumi poems have always touched me on a deeper level, even when I was much younger. Later it was revealed to me that they are supposed to transmit a certain kind of knowledge, which awakened my curiosity - so I started to enquire.
Decades later they have taught me how to read between the lines - Today they make me Self-remember.
So just Listen to the presence inside poems."*
First published: 31 August 2011
*Copyright Alexander Filmer-Lorch 2011©/all rights reserved
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