EDITORS’ NOTE
There are times when we find ourselves shrinking from life, from beauty, from the truth. From the story of love unfolding all around us, and within ourselves. It often happens in the moments where we allow the mind to transport us; when we allow the material world and language to determine the limits of our understanding and experience. As Mark Nepo describes, these tendencies can construct a prison of our own making, within which only sorrow and sadness grow. READ MORE
DISCOURSE
THE EXPERIENCE OF BEAUTY AND THE SUBLIME
by Alireza Nurbakhsh
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
ALWAYS PART OF SOMETHING LARGER
by Mark Nepo
“UNOCCUPIED PRAYER” AND DIVINE LOVE
by Mary Gossy
RUMI BEYOND BALKH AND KONYA
by Jawid Mojaddedi
INTERVIEWS
CHANGE YOURSELF
CHANGE THE WORLD
A conversation with Nipun Mehta
Interviewed by Russell Leung and Rita Fabrizio
JUST BE
Interview with David Godman
Interviewed by Reid Pierce
THE PATH ACCORDING TO A SUFI POET
Mehri Habibi Parsa 1931-2017
by Safoura Nourbakhsh
CULTUREWATCH
THE ART OF UBUNTU
by Sholeh Johnston
CULTUREWATCH
BOOK REVIEWS
The Power of Meaning: Finding Fulfillment in a World Obsessed with Happiness
by Emily Esfahani Smith
reviewed by Philip Edmondson
Things that Join the Sea and the Sky
by Mark Nepo
reviewed by Gregory Mize
POETRY
MY MOON
by Alireza Nurbakhsh
MILLED
by Roger Loff
THE ART OF SEEING
by Chris Ellery
WHEN I ASKED
by Gregory Angus
WINTER STARS FROM THE MOUNTAIN HUT
by Chris Hoffman
FEATURED POET
CHRIS ELLERY
FEATURED ARTIST
MARCELA TABOADA
