Jewels of Remembrance: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance Containing 365 Selections from the Wisdom of Rumi - Hardcover

Rumi, Jelaluddin; Helminski, Kabir; Helminski, Camille Adams

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570625247 ISBN 13: 9781570625244

Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Jewels of Remembrance presents 365 concise selections from Rumi's Mathnawi, one of the world's greatest spiritual masterpieces, in a translation that touches the heart and mind. In these passages Rumi explores and celebrates the qualities of truth, beauty, generosity, forgiveness, strength, compassion, purity, gratitude, and patience—always patience, for as Rumi says, "Patience is the key to joy."

About this title

About the Author:

Camille Adams Helminski is cofounder and codirector of the Threshold Society in Aptos, California, an educational foundation in the Mevlevi tradition based on the teachings of Rumi. She was the first women to translate a substantial portion of the Qur’an into English, in her book The Light of Dawn. Among her other translations are Mevlevi Wird: The Prayers Recited Daily by Mevlevi Dervishes; Rumi Daylight and Jewels of Remembrance (with Kabir Helminski); and Awakened Dreams and Mevlevi Ayins (with Refik Algan). She holds and honorary doctorate in Arabic from the University of Damascus and the World Union of Writers (Paris).

Kabir Helminski is codirector, with his wife, Camille Helminski, of the Threshold So

About this edition

• Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1570625247
• ISBN 13: 9781570625244
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224