40 rules of love
From the Blog tanveerrauf [image: elif] The Forty Rules of Love takes Sufism into blockbuster territory. It interweaves Ella's quest to find love with Shams's and Rumi's quest for beatitude through friendship, as told by a range of characters including Rumi's wife and sons: one of whom was to assassinate Shams, the other to carry on his father's work. The narrative is racy, told in first-person fragments, letters, emails and braided through with Shams's theosophy as told through his 40 rules of love. Elif Shafak expounds a populist rather than a scholarly Sufism, providing a vigourous and easily assimilable introduction to Sufi thought. ——–MUST READ pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
This big heart is such a small organ
From the Blog r2square [image: Dead leaf] I cannot tell you what it feels like. You know it, deep down and up above. The bittersweet happiness pressing upon your heart and soul. You just feel it. It's right there. Fluttering beats and the soft light. Sit in the corner of a room, illuminated by the dim light of dusk out the window. It's gonna be dark soon. Sit in that small place between the fridge and the cupboard and hug your legs, pressing them to your chest. Closer to the scared fluttering. You can hear your friends outside, laughing and shouting and you feel that jagged rhythm in your chest again. It's bitter. The voice of the past. And it's so soft, the whisper you hear now. Is it the fear of happiness? Is it the scare of pain again? What is it, pressing on you so lightly, what is it, calling pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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