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Zhuangzi tells the story of a man crossing a river when an empty boat drifts into his vessel. He adjusts his course, no irritation. If the boat had a man in it, he would have shouted. The boat being empty, he simply moved. Zhuangzi asks: what if you could cross the river of your life as if every boat that hits you were empty?
Rumi was thirty-seven, a respected scholar and teacher, with thousands of students. He had never written a poem. Then a wandering dervish named Shams of Tabriz walked into his life and asked him a question. Within months, Rumi had abandoned his teaching, was dancing in the streets, and was writing the greatest mystical poetry in human history. This is the story of the encounter that changes everything.
Job was a righteous man who lost everything — his wealth, his children, his health. His friends came and told him he must have sinned. He had not sinned. He argued with God. And God answered him out of a whirlwind — not with an explanation but with questions. Forty chapters of the most devastating questions in literature. And Job was satisfied.