Rumi: One-Handed Basket Weaving : Poems on the Theme of Work
by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Coleman Barks
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit

Sufis refer to themselves as 'workers' and 'lovers' interchangeably, and the action that needs doing always involves a companionship with the spiritual world. In these poems from the Mathnawi, Rumi finds metaphors for that mysterious co-operation.