The Essential Rumi

"In the evolution of my journey I learned that the way that we can transform women’s lives and our lives generally is not necessarily only through the warrior’s ways. I do not deny the warrior’s ways. I have ridden the horse and carried the armour! But as I evolve in my own growth I have learnt that the way we can truly achieve transformation and change is through our own inner peace. It is through seeing our inner joy and inner happiness and through love. This is love for the ones we love, which is the easiest and the sweetest love. This love can even evolve to compassion for those we have despised or that we have fought against, and bring ourselves to pray for their own healing. Rumi helps me do that. I wake up every day and read a Rumi poem and I go to sleep every day with a Rumi poem. His words help me remember not only my inner peace and inner journey but also to help every woman and man out there to strive for their inner peace and inner journey. His beautiful poetry helps me to do that. My evolution is that we need to find our inner voice and our inner healing and see our own beauty. Only when we see that we have inner peace and love can we progress. I don’t mean that in a goofy way. We have a lot of things to be angry about but if we do things with anger we perpetuate the cycle. Rumi is my anchor."