The Rumi Collection,9780939660667

The Rumi Collection

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ISBN13: 9780939660667
ISBN10: 0939660660
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-12-01
Publisher(s): Threshold Books
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Summary

Here is a wonderfully rich introduction to the work of the great mystical poet, featuring the leading literary translations of his verse. Translators include Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Andrew Harvey, Kabir and Camille Helminski, Daniel Liebert, and Peter Lamborn Wilson. "The Rumi Collection" also includes a biography of Rumi by Andrew Harvey, as well as an introductory essay by Kabir Helminski on the challenges of translating Rumi into English.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: RUMI IN ENGLISH VIII
KABIR HELMINSKI
SELECTIONS 1
I Working With Our Humanness Your Worth; The Human Shape Is a Ghost; The Embryo; By the Sound of Their Voice; The Love of Women; Everything That Is Made Beautiful and Fair and Lovely; If Love Were Only Spiritual; This Marriage; There's Nothing Ahead; Those You Are With; Travelling Companions; Praising Manners; The Ears; The Jar With The Dry Rim; The Mill, The Stone, And The Water; What Is This Fragrance; Inward Occupation; Make Real The Sublime Words of The Prophet; Answers from The Elements.
1(15)
II The Ego Animal Wings of Desire; Selections from the Mathnawi.
16(6)
III Awe, Naked Wonder Give Me Ecstasy; Don't Say Yes or No; Your Soul Is So Close to Mine; The Drunkards and the Tavern; The Spiritual Concert; On His Sepulchre; Proper Vocation; The Only Teaching; Can Anyone Really Describe?
22(11)
IV Inner Work Why Organize a Universe This Way?; What Have You Bought With Your Life?; Ask the Rose About the Rose; The Torrent Leaves; When Things Are Heard; Search the Darkness; The Inner Garment of Love.
33(9)
V The Step into Placelessness To Take a Step Without Feet; Mistaking the Lightning for the Sun; At the Time of Night Prayer; Night and Sleep; Eating Poetry; Subtle Degrees; Like This; Travel; The Elephant's Dream.
42(11)
VI The Gift and the Giver This Universe is for Satisfying Needs; Ramadan; Borrowed Clothes; The Owner of all States; The Net of Gratitude; Livelihood; The Drunkards; The Inner Search Is From You; Know, Son, That Everything in The Universe
53(8)
VII Passion for God The Sound of Water in the Ears of the Thirsty; Love of the Dead Does Not Last; I Am Burning; Drowned in God; Intelligence and Tears; In The Presence of His Glory; Whatever It Is You Wish to Marry; Look at Yourself, Trembling , Afraid of Non-existence; You Are Not a Single "You."; The Three States.
61(7)
VIII Signs that Speak The Name; Animal Cookies; With Us, The Name of Everything; You Are an Eye; In Pain I Breathe; Everyone is Dying; The Edge of the Roof; Water of the Water; Animal Cookies; Heroes.
68(8)
IX The Pearl of the Heart Only the Heart; Why Are You Milking Another?; The Six-Faced Mirror; When Your Heart Becomes The Grave of Your Secret; Someone With a Clear and Empty Heart; Know the Mirror of the Heart is Infinite; Those With Mirror- like Hearts; Just as Your Two Eyes Are Under The Control of The Heart; If The Heart is Restored to Health; Night Cancels the Business of Day; The Kernel and the Shell; A Word to the Heart; The Window Within the Soul; Precious Core; Consult Your Own Hearts.
76(11)
X Yearning The Water We Seek; With Us; It Was Adam Who Wept; Idle Questions; What Is bounty without a beggar?; The Quest; By God, Don't Linger.
87(8)
XI Praise, Glory Banners of Praise; Praising Manners; Love's Apocalypse, Love's Glory; Water and clay
95(6)
XII The Only One This Bewildering Game; The Ruby; The Window Between Hearts; The Froth and the Sea; The Sea Within the Fish; Water and Wine; The Elusive Ones; One, One, One; The Clear Bead at The Center Changes Everything.
101(10)
XIII Boiling The Chickpeas Boil Nicely Now; Buttermilk; The Spiritual Path Wrecks The Body; Love is Like a Lawsuit; Treasure in the Ruins; Like Sunlight Upon the Earth; The Shop; Don't Say Yes or No.
111(10)
XIV The Complete Human The Spiritual Surgeon; Feed Your Heart in Conversation; Companionship with the Holy; Whatever Knowledge The Master is Known to Have; O Brother, Wisdom is Pouring into You; That Journeys Are Good; Longing for the Birds of Solomon; Two Kinds Of Miracles; You Embrace Some Form.
121(9)
XV Surrender Say Yes Quickly; Growing a Coat of Mail; Keeper of Secrets; Whispers of Love; Ripened Fruit; Stay Close, My Heart; The Only Certain Refuge; Why Cling; Love is the Master; You Suspect This Could Be Yours; Out of Control; It Suits the Generous Man to Give Money; God's Slave is Free; The One-Way Pull.
130(13)
XVI Love is the Cause Song of the Reed; The Intellectual; In Restless Movement; The Ship Sunk in Love; The Interest Without the Capital; Your Bread is Seeking You; Be Love's Willing Slave; Greed and Generosity; After Being in Love, the Next Responsibility; When Grapes Turn to Wine; Ghazal; Intellect is a Shackle; The Intellect Says; Both; The Lovers' Tailor's Shop; Rebab and Ney; Because I Cannot Sleep; Love is Reckless; What Remains After Nothing.
143(21)
XVII Mercy Losing the Way; The Best Customer; Beggars Are Mirrors; The Embryo; Muhammad and the Sick Companion; Why Be Cruel to Yourself; Mercy and Wrath; Generosity is Gainful Trade; The Funny Thing Is...; O Drop; When Sand Suffices.
164(16)
XVIII Purity Quatrains from Open Secret; No "Above" or "Below"; A Thief in the Night; Love Ends All Arguments; Water in the boat...; Emptiness; The Empty Heart; The Guest House; Expansion and Contraction; The Good Root; Abandon The Dry Prayer of Words; When a Man and a Woman Become One; Sifter of Dust; The House of Love; Who Are You and What Do You Want?; Love Ends all arguments.

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