The soul of Rumi : a new collection of ecstatic poems /
Collects newly translated and annotated poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic covering topics including silence, God, play, friendship, grief, and music
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| Language: | English Persian |
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San Francisco :
HarperSanFrancisco,
2001
[New York] : c2001 [San Francisco] : [2001], ©2001 [San Francisco] : c2001 [San Francisco] : ©2001 [San Francisco] : [2001] |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Rumi's Life and Times
- Some Claims About Poetry and Consciousness
- Fana and Baqa
- The Question of the Personal
- 1 A Green Shawl: Solomon's Far Mosque. Entrance Door ; What Was Told, That ; Mary's Hiding ; I want to be where ... ; Would you like to have revealed to you ... ; Imagining is like feeling around ... ; The Husk and Core of Masculinity
- 2. Initiation. The Necessary Pain of Changing. Work in the Invisible ; A Necessary Autumn Inside Each ; Pain ; A Surprise of Roses ; More Range ; Choose a Suffering ; Climb to the Execution Place ; Watch a One-Year-Old
- 3. Baqa: Inside This Ordinary Daylight. Walkingstick Dragon ; The Opener ; Soul Light and Sun the Same ; The Pattern Improves ; You're from a country beyond this universe ... ; Essence is emptiness ... ; We're not afraid of God's blade ... ; Come to this street with ... ; Spring overall. But inside us ... ; This is how I would die ... ; How will you know the difficulties ... ; Love is the way messengers ... ; Begin ; Back to Being ; Three Travelers Tell Their Dreams
- 4. This Speech: The Source of Dream Vision. Looking into the Creek ; Forth ; Hometown Streets ; A Trace ; Creator of Absence and Presence ; A Ship Gliding over Nothing ; Omar and the Old Poet
- 5. One Altar: The Inner Meaning of Religions. One Song ; The Indian Tree ; Your Face ; Let the Way Itself Arrive ; A Cross-Eyed Student ; Dear Soul ; Four Words for What We Want ; Four Interrupted Prayers ; Spiritual Windowshoppers ; The clear bead at the center ...