Conversations with Rumi Rumi: Dan, I've seen your work... Dan: Well, I chose you as an archetypal partner, and I've tried to embody Love in my writing... Rumi: Be careful about your writing... Dan: What do you mean? Rumi: You write some very wonderful things, but you can taint them with distasteful words... Dan: My messages can be spicy... Rumi: Yes, and they can conflict with the very Love you write about... Dan: I guess I know deep down they can... Rumi: So if you're walking with me, run and dance with the swirling wind...Be a pearl in the ocean sand...Join your words with the holy tongues of waterfalls...Let them flow like the unstoppable red hot lava from a volcano...but give them with the grace of God... Dan: And don't diss G. W. and the Republican party Rumi: They are doing the best they can on one plane...You are doing your best on another... Dan: I suppose you're right... Rumi: Rise into the clouds...Mate with the raindrops...Let your love rain down on every living thing... Dan: Thank you Rumi... | To Someone Growing Roots in a New Realm by Daniel Nelson Howe, Paperback | Indigo Chapters