This exquisite box set includes a 128-page book and 50 laminated cards with color illustrations from twelfth and thirteenth century Persian classical art. As Thomas Moore points out in the introduction, Rumi teaches us "a spiritual physics and a love intelligence." Each card in the deck contains poetry from this Sufi spiritual master translated by Kabir and Camille Helminski. The idea is to use these as tutors of love in your relationships with family, friends, husband or wife. Let the cards open your heart to the divine possibilities of intimacy and togetherness.
Manuela Dunn Mascetti's book provides a brief overview of Rumi's life and interpretations of each of the poems by the love master. The Sufi belief that the heart is the great illuminator of all shines through these meditations. Mascetti catches in Rumi's verse intimations of love as a secret gateway into the world of mystery, as a state of oneness, as a melting of boundaries, as a catalyst of passion, as an off shoot of peace and quiet, and as a precursor of enchantment. In the words of Rumi from one of the cards: "The beauty of the heart / is the lasting beauty; / its lips give to drink / of the water of life."
