Not long before his death, Rumi wrote of his passion for his Beloved Shams-I-Tabriz and its significance:
Those tender words we said to one another
Are stored in the secret heart of heaven.
One day, like the rain, they will fall and spread
And their mystery will grow green over the world.
The time has come for this greening of the world’s heart and mind by the mystery of Rumi’s love for his Beloved. Increasingly, Rumi is being recognized as the unique spiritual genius he is — as someone who is fused at the highest level and with the greatest possible intensity the intellect of a Plato, the vision, passion, and soul-force of a Christ or Buddha, and the extraordinary literary gifts of a Shakespeare.
Rumi is, I believe, not only the world’s greatest mystical poet but also an essential guide to the new planetary spiritual renaissance that is slowly emerging from the ruins of our civilization. He speaks to us from the depths of our own sacred identity, and what he says has the electric eloquence of our innermost truth.
No other poet or philosopher of whom I know has Rumi’s almost frightening intimacy of address, and no one I am aware of in any civilization has conveyed the terror, rapture, and wonder of awakening to Divine Love with such fearless and gorgeous courage, such humility, and such unflinching clarity.
IAMUS.ONE 
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