The Ocean of Mercy

Two Wings of Love: Returning to the Beloved with Rumi on the Spiritual Path of Divine Love

Published by Mantra Books
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About The Book

Rumi reimagined for today—where love becomes mercy, woman Divine radiance, man tenderness, and union pure transcendence.

The Ocean of Mercy invites its readers into a forgotten understanding of love — not as desire or possession but as a sacred path of return. Drawing inspiration from the teachings of the thirteenth-century mystic poet Rumi, this book explores the timeless vision of woman and man as “two wings” seeking wholeness through love. Here, romantic union is not reduced to emotion or compatibility but revealed as a spiritual alchemy through which mercy, equality, and divine remembrance unfold. In contrast to modern narratives shaped by consumerism and superficial intimacy, The Ocean of Mercy restores love to its sacred dimension. Woman is honoured as creative and luminous — “a ray of God” — while man embodies direction and strength, softened and transformed through tenderness. Together, they mirror the divine unity from which all life emerges. Through poetic reflection, spiritual insight, and contemplative practice, this book offers a path for those who sense that love carries a deeper calling. To love, in its truest form, is to remember where we come from — and to find our way home.

About The Author

Tunc Altinbas lives by the sea in Foça, ancient Phokaia, a historic town on the Aegean coast, where waves and silence shape his daily rhythm. Growing up with the stories of his grandmother, he inherited a love for wisdom and narrative that later found its deepest resonance in the words of Rumi. As a modern Sufi, he believes that the union of man and woman is not only a human bond but a sacred path. For him, love is the key that unlocks hidden dimensions of life—where two become one, boundaries dissolve, and the eternal presence of the Divine can be touched even before death. His writing is both poetic and visionary: rooted in the intimacy of lived experience, yet open to readers across cultures. Two Wings of Love is not just a book for him, but a testimony of faith—that love, when embraced as sacred wholeness, has the power to transform individuals and heal the world.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Mantra Books (March 2, 2027)
  • Length: 192 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781806950683

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Mercy is a central quality of soul, a structure, as Tunc Altinbas put is, or a power that can make us human in the deepest way possible. You have to be strong to be merciful, for it is a defining quality not only of human persons but social groups and society itself. Above all, a mature society shows mercy to children, animals and the sick and troubled. I am grateful to Tunc Altinbas for focusing his talents on this beautiful topic.

Thomas Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul 

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