Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Selected Poetry and Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi
by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
Category: Poetry

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.