If you pour the sea into a pitcher, how much will hold? one day's store" The structure of Rumi's didactic masterpiece is much like the Quran of which it is an estoric commentary. Emulating the form of holy book to the extent possible, Rumi interlaces stories and parables with direct formulation of sufi doctrine. Rumi is without doubt one of the supreme peaks of Sufism, a pearless sage and metaphysician who was able to express the most diverse aspects of metaphisics in the most lucid beautiful language, who brought the sublimest truths within the reach of men in the form of the most concrete images. By wedding Truth to beauty, and meaning to the most perfect form possible, Rumi saw beauty as the direct imprint of the Divine in this world of generation and corruption and the most immediate means of awakening in man and consciousness and awareness of the spiritual world. He saw in beauty the direct proof of God and His infinite Mercy and power. One could say that for Rumi the proof of the existence of God could be summarized in the statement "there is beauty, therefore God is". Morever, Rumi saw beauty everywhere, in virgin nature, in the being of man and in art. For acheiving the  sublimest Truth there are seven inner cycles a sufi has to pass with eagerness. 1. Awakening: If you are not one of illuminated heart, be awake to be a seeker of the illuminated heart,  be always in strife But if your heart has been awakened, sleep sound: your spiritual eye is not absent from the seven heavens and six directions.                                                                2. Consent: His unsweetness is sweet in my soul; may my soul be sacrificed to the beloved who grieves my heart. I am in love with my grief and pain for the sake of pleasing my peerless master.  3. Appreciation: Appreciation of your power increases your power, while ingratitude deminishes from it. 4. Pateince: Patience is better; pateince is the quickest guide to the object of one's quest. Patience in silence attract the divine mercy, whereas to seek this sign is an evidence of infirmity.                                              5. Unity: Who am I ? the lover and the loved. We are one spirit within two beings. 6. Purity: Any one whose heart is pure and sees the truth, will behold from any city the shinning sun. 7. Clarity: Make yourself pure from the attributes of self, that you may see your own flawless and clear essance.
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