Rumi-nations
My friend Jamil just posted some thoughts on Rumi about physicality. For a different take, you can check out his new post here:
Rumi was a 13th century Persian scholar, mystic, jurist, and poet... I couldn’t even find this poem online, or in the pdf version, so it must be a rarer poem in this expanded edition of the book, and had to be transcribed from the book. I recommend ‘The Essential Rumi’ to any seeker or mystic on the path...
The Freedom of a Place...
If you put shoes that are too tight
and walk out across an empty plain
you will not feel the freedom of the place
unless you take off your shoes.