I haven't read Marley and Me, but I am stunned at your command of the English language, Billy. I have read Chinese poetry, but only in translation, alas. So much is lost in the translation...
I am unsure of what you are asking us. Is it what we think of Rumi or what we think of love?
In my perception there are two types of love: eros and agape.
Eros is passion - the physical love of one person for another. But the sensations of eros always pass. Ask any couple who have been married for twenty years. The eros will have passed, but if they are lucky, it will be replaced with agape - the deep, feeling of at oneness with each other.
Rumi's poetry was about a sort of spiritual ectasy, I think. An agape sort of love which encompasses all:
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Originally Posted by Rumi
Gamble everything for love,
if you're a true human being.
If not, leave
this gathering.
Half heartedness doesn't reach
into majesty. You set out
to find God, but then you keep
stopping for long periods
at mean-spirited roadhouses.
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