November 23, 2016
For today’s post I wrote an article about a song I wanted to analyse for a long time and now I’m sharing my thoughts about it with you. The song is entitled The Mystic’s Dream by Canadian singer, harpist and composer Loreena McKennitt and it appeared on her 1994 album The Mask and Mirror. What […]
Tags: canada, devotion, ecstasy, folk, longing, Loreena McKennitt, love, music, mysticism, religion, song, spirituality, sufism, the mask and mirror, the mystic’s dream, union
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July 14, 2016
For today’s post, I’m going to review a poetry collection entitled Songs of Kabir, which is written by the Indian saint and mystic poet Kabir and it is translated into English by another famous Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore. What I understood from Evelyn Underhill’s presentation of Kabir’s life and poems is that Kabir was the […]
Tags: beauty, death, ecstasy, evelyn underhill, harmony, hinduism, islam, love, music, mysticism, poem, Rabindranath Tagore, religion, review, songs of kabir, sufism, truth, unity
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June 26, 2016
Dacă tot am citit Iubirea a spus, tradusă în limba română de Simona Trandafir, și The Essential Rumi, tradusă în limba engleză de către poetul americam Coleman Barks, m-am gândit să continui această incursiune în poezia orientală/sufită cu volumul Poeme persane, tradus și adnotat de Otto Stark, carte apărută la Editura Herald în anul 2012. […]
Tags: baba taher, editura herald, evul mediu, george grigore, hafez, islam, iubire, jalaladin rumi, misticism, moarte, omar khayyam, otto stark, poeme persane, poezie, recenzie, religie, rubai, saadi, sabestari, spiritualitate, suferinta, sufism, timp, tristete
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April 3, 2016
Această colecție de poezii persane, create de maestrul sufit Jalaladin Rumi și traduse în limba română de către Simona Trandafir, a reprezentat o adevărată surpriză pentru mine, deoarece inițial aveam vaga impresie că voi găsi printre paginile acestei cărți poezii de dragoste. Însă nu a fost tocmai cum mi-am imaginat, ci cu mult mai bine. […]
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July 27, 2015
For today’s review I’m going to write about a mystic Persian poet I came across on Amazon, whose works are still read, sung and frequently quoted. Jalaladdin Muhammad Rumi was a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born in Balkh, modern day Afghanistan. During the Mongol Invasion, he was forced to flee with his family to Konya, […]
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