The purpose of love poetry is to exalt lovers. Rumi seeks complete surrender to this purpose, which he offers in a magnificent way. Through his poems, he encourages openness, the essence of existence, and the sense of light, in an inner energy of universal texture. This energy gives life, but also the possibility of meeting with God. If a person does not read his poems with this perspective, it is useless to read them.

This small anthology includes 40 of the most characteristic poems by the great Sufi master and founder of the Mevlevi Order, known as the whirling dervishes.