MEVLANA
One of his most eloquent couplets proclaims:
Whatever you think of war, I am far, far from it;
Whatever you think of love, I am that, only that, all that.
He saw God in people and all living creatures and didn't separate them from each other; in the same manner as God did. For Mevlana, Man is the exalted in all creation, because only Man can reach God through love and thus Man realizes the truth in the saying "I am Man's secret and Man is my secret."
Mevlana had a humanist, universalistic, humanitarian vision: "I am, " he declared, " temple for all humankind." His mystic spirit can and must be claimed not by one country, one culture, one religion, but by all humanity.
His philosophy and works have been embraced since his death in 1273. This philosophy has guided many people including names such Spinoza, Goethe, Novali, Kierkegaard, Nietzche, Dostoyevski, Gabriel Marcel.
Whatever you think of war, I am far, far from it;
Whatever you think of love, I am that, only that, all that.
He saw God in people and all living creatures and didn't separate them from each other; in the same manner as God did. For Mevlana, Man is the exalted in all creation, because only Man can reach God through love and thus Man realizes the truth in the saying "I am Man's secret and Man is my secret."
Mevlana had a humanist, universalistic, humanitarian vision: "I am, " he declared, " temple for all humankind." His mystic spirit can and must be claimed not by one country, one culture, one religion, but by all humanity.
His philosophy and works have been embraced since his death in 1273. This philosophy has guided many people including names such Spinoza, Goethe, Novali, Kierkegaard, Nietzche, Dostoyevski, Gabriel Marcel.