The essential Rumi
Book - 2004
A comprehensive collection of ecstatic poetry that delights with its energy and passion, The Essential Rumi brings the vibrant, living words of famed thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jelalludin Rumi to contemporary readers.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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New York :
HarperOne
[2004]
- Language
- English
Persian - Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- New expanded edition
- Item Description
- Originally published in 1995.
- Physical Description
- xxv, 388 pages ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-378) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780062509598
9780062509581
- On Rumi
- A Note on the Organization of This Book
- 1.. The Tavern: Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home
- On The Tavern
- Who Says Words with My Mouth?
- We have a huge barrel of wine
- A Community of the Spirit
- There's a strange frenzy in my head
- Drunks fear the police
- A Children's Game
- Gone, inner and outer
- The wine we really drink
- The Many Wines
- Special Plates
- Burnt Kabob
- The New Rule
- This that is tormented
- 2.. Bewilderment: I Have Five Things to Say
- On Bewilderment
- I Have Five Things to Say
- Acts of Helplessness
- Saladin's Begging Bowl
- Late, by myself
- Does sunset sometimes look
- Be Melting Snow
- The Fragile Vial
- Where Are We?
- The Friend comes into my body
- There is a light seed grain
- Do you think I know
- 3.. Emptiness and Silence: The Night Air
- On Silence
- The Reed Flute's Song
- A Thirsty Fish
- Enough Words?
- This World Which Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness
- Quietness
- Sanai
- A Just-Finishing Candle
- Craftsmanship and Emptiness
- Emptiness
- When you are with everyone but me
- No Flag
- The Food Sack
- The Night Air
- Only Breath
- There is a way between voice
- 4.. Spring Giddiness: Stand in the Wake of This Chattering and Grow Airy
- On Spring Giddiness
- Spring
- Where Everything Is Music
- A Great Wagon
- Today, like every other day
- Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
- The breeze at dawn
- I would love to kiss you
- Daylight, full of small dancing particles
- They try to say what you are
- Come to the orchard in Spring
- Spring Is Christ
- Shreds of Steam
- The Steambath
- The Ground Cries Out
- Unfold Your Own Myth
- Not a Day on Any Calendar
- Flutes for Dancing
- The Shape of My Thongue
- The Grasses
- The Sheikh Who Played with Children
- Let the lover be disgraceful
- All day and night, music
- 5.. Feeling Separation: Don't Come Near Me
- On Separation
- Sometimes I Forget Completely
- A Man and a Woman Arguing
- A night full of talking that hurts
- An Empty Garlic
- The Diver's Clothes Lying Empty
- Red Shirt
- My Worst Habit
- Don't let your throat tighten
- Dissolver of Sugar
- Pale sunlight
- 6.. Controlling the Desire-Body: How Did You Kill Your Rooster, Husam?
- On The Desire-Body
- Sexual Urgency, What a Woman's Laughter Can Do, and the Nature of True Virility
- Tattooing in Qazwin
- The Center of the Fire
- Someone who goes with half a loaf
- The mystery does not get clearer
- Muhammad and the Huge Eater
- Fasting
- Bismillah
- Wean Yourself
- After the Meditation
- The Dog in the Doorway
- The light you give off
- Tending Two Shops
- Think that you're gliding out
- 7.. Sohbet: Meetings on the Riverbank
- On Sohbet
- Talking in the Night
- Talking Through the Door
- A Mouse and a Frog
- The Long String
- The Force of Friendship
- The Vigil
- Two Friends
- The Servant Who Loved His Prayers
- Imra'u 'l-Qays
- All Rivers at Once
- The Blocked Road
- A Babbling Child
- Who sees inside from outside?
- Constant Conversation
- Bonfire at Midnight
- In Between Stories
- The Question
- The Music
- I saw you last night in the gathering
- The Tent
- Friend, our closeness is this
- Listen to presences
- 8.. Being a Lover: The Sunrise Ruby
- On Being A Lover
- The Sunrise Ruby
- Water from Your Spring
- You Sweep the Floor
- Each Note
- Granite and Wineglass
- Buoyancy
- Music Master
- When I am with you
- The minute I heard my first love story
- We are the mirror as well as the face
- I want to hold you close
- Someone Digging in the Ground
- The Phrasing Must Change
- The Guest House
- 9.. The Pickaxe: Getting to the Treasure Beneath the Foundation
- On The Pickaxe
- Who Makes These Changes?
- Why Wine Is Forbidden
- On Resurrection Day
- The Dream That Must Be Interpreted
- The Pickaxe
- Zikr
- The Core of Masculinity
- I honor those who try
- Dervish at the Door
- 10.. Art as Flirtation with Surrender: Wanting New Silk Harp Strings
- On Flirtation
- Omar and the Old Poet
- An Egypt That Doesn't Exist
- Chinese Art and Greek Art
- In your light I learn
- Drumsound rises on the air
- Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?
- 11.. Union: Gnats Inside the Wind
- On Union
- Gnats Inside the Wind
- Meadowsounds
- Ayaz and the King's Pearl
- Put This Design in Your Carpet
- Hallaj
- We Three
- I am filled with you
- 12.. The Sheikh: I Have Such a Teacher
- On The Sheikh
- Chickpea to Cook
- I Have Such a Teacher
- Sublime Generosity
- Like This
- A Bowl
- Wax
- No Room for Form
- Childhood Friends
- The Mouse and the Camel
- These gifts from the Friend
- The Lame Goat
- 13.. Recognizing Elegance: Your Reasonable Father
- On Elegance
- Father Reason
- A craftsman pulled a reed
- Humble living does not diminish
- New Moon, Hilal
- Body Intelligence
- The Seed Market
- 14.. The Howling Necessity: Cry Out in Your Weakness
- On Howling
- Love Dogs
- Cry Out in Your Weakness
- The Debtor Sheikh
- You that come to birth
- 15.. Teaching Stories: How the Unseen World Works
- On The Unseen
- Nasuh
- Moses and the Shepherd
- Joy at Sudden Disappointment
- If the beloved is everywhere
- Story Water
- 16.. Rough Metaphors: More Teaching Stories
- On Roughness
- Rough Metaphors
- Birdwings
- I Come Before Dawn
- Checkmate
- An Awkward Comparison
- Two Kinds of Intelligence
- Two Ways of Running
- The Importance of Gourdcrafting
- Breadmaking
- 17.. Solomon Poems: The Far Mosque
- On Solomon
- Sheba's Gifts to Solomon
- Solomon to Sheba
- Sheba's Hesitation
- Sheba's Throne
- Solomon's Crooked Crown
- The Far Mosque
- A bird delegation came to Solomon
- 18.. The Three Fish: Gamble Everything for Love
- On Gambling
- If you want what visible reality
- Gamble everything
- In a boat down a fast-running creek
- The Three Fish
- Send the Chaperones Away
- When I remember your love
- All our lives we've looked
- The Gift of Water
- 19.. Jesus Poems: The Population of the World
- On Jesus
- I called through your door
- Jesus on the Lean Donkey
- What Jesus Runs Away From
- Christ is the population
- There's Nothing Ahead
- 20.. In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: More Teaching Stories
- On Baghdad
- In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: In Cairo, Dreaming of Baghdad
- Dying, Laughing
- Human Honesty
- Dalqak's Message
- The Cat and the Meat
- Sheikh Kharraqani and His Wretched Wife
- The Snake-Catcher and the Frozen Snake
- Polishing the Mirror
- Ali in Battle
- 21.. Beginning and End: The Stories That Frame the Mathnawi
- On The Frame
- The King and the Handmaiden and the Doctor
- The Three Brothers and the Chinese Princess
- 22.. Green Ears Everywhere: Children Running Through
- On Children Running Through
- I used to be shy
- Green Ears
- Birdsong brings relief
- The way of love is not
- Let your throat-song
- I have phrases and whole pages
- You've so distracted me
- I'm Not Saying This Right
- The Least Figure
- I reach for a piece of wood
- 23.. Being Woven: Communal Practice
- On Being Woven
- Of Being Woven
- The Waterwheel
- The Granary Floor
- A Song About a Donkey
- Elephant in the Dark
- 24.. Wished-For Song: Secret Practices
- On Secrecy
- A Wished-For Song
- A Basket of Fresh Bread
- When We Pray Alone
- One Who Wraps Himself
- Deliberation
- The Private Banquet
- We are the night ocean
- Which is worth more, a crowd
- 25.. Majesty: This We Have Now
- On Majesty
- This We Have Now
- The Visions of Daquqi
- The Worm's Waking
- The Freshness
- Judge a Moth by the Beauty of Its Candle
- The morning wind spreads
- Slave, be aware
- 26.. Evolutionary Intelligence: Say I Am You
- On Evolving
- A Dove in the Eaves
- We have this way of talking
- This piece of food
- In the slaughterhouse of love
- The Witness, the Darling
- In the Arc of Your Mallet
- Unmarked Boxes
- The Milk of Millennia
- The You Pronoun
- Birdsong from Inside the Egg
- Say I Am You
- 27.. The Turn: Dance in Your Blood
- On The Turn
- Inside water, a waterwheel
- You have said what you are
- A secret turning in us
- This moment this love comes to rest
- Keep walking, though there's no place
- Walk to the well
- I circle your nest
- No better love than love
- Some nights stay up
- I am so small
- When you feel your lips
- The sun is love
- Something opens our wings
- Held like this
- I stand up, and this one of me
- I have lived on the lip
- Real value comes with madness
- Dance, when you're broken open
- Notes
- A Note on These Translations and a Few Recipes
- References