Japanese does have a very complex writing system, which is why it tends to take longer to learn Japanese than a language which uses a phonetic alphabet. However, this can be a lot of fun, and there’s a tremendous sense of achievement and pride when students find they can quite quickly learn to read a [...]
Since I was a kid, I was enthralled with sci-fi. That term dates me — it’s now called “sf.” No fan of science fiction books will ever agree on the top five, but for what it is worth, I’d like to give my personal recommendations.Although other enthusiasts may not agree with my selection, [...]
Jelaluddin Rumi’s preeminent translator is Coleman Barks. The message Barks conveys is of Rumi’s ecstatic poetry, which, as Barks said to Bill Moyers, PBS journalist, is “trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity … like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral … what Jesus referred to when [...]
Maniko’s music is a rich and unique meeting of musical worlds. As guest vocalist on Secret Language: Rumi a Celebration in Song, she joins forces with award winning & Grammy nominated co-producer Kit Walker (Jai Uttal, Deva Premal) to create an utterly new and contemporary sound which has touched the lover’s of Rumi everywhere.
The world of Rumi is neither exclusively the world of a Sufi, nor the world of a Hindu, nor a Jew, nor a Christian; it is the highest state of a human being–a fully evolved human. A complete human is not bound by cultural limitations; he touches every one of us. Today Rumi’s poems can [...]
Andrew Harvey was born in South India in 1952 and lived there until he was nine years old, a period he credits with shaping his vision of the inner unity of all religions. He left India to attend private school in England, and entered Oxford University in 1970 to study history on a scholarship. At [...]
Sufi mystic poet Jelaluddin Rumi, born more than 700 years ago, is now one of the most popular poets in the world. Rumi’s poems strike chords of spiritual longing and love in so many of us – including me. My love of his work led to this website, and my production of a CD of [...]