Thanks for your sharing your story. I learned of Rumi through my exposure to non-violent communication (M. Rosenberg) and have already experienced many times a mystic, transcendent moment of empathic connection to others and myself. I find it is something that can be practiced, something you can have at any moment of your life. Rumi's poems come very close to this beauty I have experienced.
"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; don't go back to sleep" :-D
What an honor to receive this present. I am really touched. Thank you from my heart.
While mystical experiences are very personal, and are highly personalized, there are some broad categories experiences in which they are shared across people who have had them. They are oddly repeatable* even if they are not falsifiable. There are signatures that are in common, and you can recognize them. "Getting" Rumi for me was like this: After my own experiences, I stumbled back across Rumi and it suddenly made sense. I can see what informed his poetry, even across linguistic, religious, and historical lines.
This was the same with Tao Te Ching. What was impenetrably cryptic was suddenly intuitive. Or Zen Koans for that matter.
*They are oddly repeatable even across religious lines, even in cultures that may not have formal religions. It's not religion that makes the mystic.