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  • Published: 3 May 2021
  • ISBN: 9780525537786
  • Imprint: Tarcher
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99

The Rumi Prescription

How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life



A powerful personal journey to find meaning and life lessons in the words of a wildly popular 13th century poet.

A powerful personal journey to find meaning and life lessons in the words of a wildly popular 13th century poet.

Rumi's inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. In The Rumi Prescription, we follow her path of discovery as she translates Rumi's works for herself - to gain wisdom and insight in the face of a creative and spiritual roadblock. With the help of her father, who is a lifelong fan of Rumi's poetry, she immerses herself in this rich body of work, and discovers a 13th-century prescription for modern life.

Addressing isolation, distraction, depression, fear, and other everyday challenges we face, the book offers a roadmap for living with intention and ease, and embracing love at every turn--despite our deeply divided and chaotic times. Most of all, it presents a vivid reminder that we already have the answers we seek, if we can just slow down to honor them.

  • You went out in search of gold far and wide, but all along you were gold on the inside.

  • Become the sky and the clouds that create the rain, not the gutter that carries it to the drain.

  • You already own all the sustenance you seek. If only you'd wake up and take a peek.

  • Quit being a drop. Make yourself an ocean.
    • Published: 3 May 2021
    • ISBN: 9780525537786
    • Imprint: Tarcher
    • Format: Paperback
    • Pages: 272
    • RRP: $24.99

    Praise for The Rumi Prescription

    Praise for Haldol and Hyacinths:

    "Whipsmart...Moezzi's fierce honesty and comic self-deprecation bind together winningly."
    --Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe

    "[A] defiantly frank memoir."
    --Parade