num_pages: 120
description: these selections from the poetry of Rumi express the courage and intensity needed to overcome our ego-imprisonment. Much of Rumi's poetry has circled around the mystery of surrender. Some of it expresses a longing and even a bewilderment but there is also much that expresses the discipline clarity and intensity that true surrender requires. the lion is Rumi's image for that fierce intensity that recognizes no authority except the highest truth.
language: English
title: Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poems & Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi
titlecomplete: Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poems & Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi
genres: Literature, Spirituality, Mysticism, Poetry
ratings_count: 111
publisher: Threshold Books