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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Wine and the Cup | |
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| You Are the Macrocosm | |
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| Our Soul Was Like the Universe | |
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| Return at Last | |
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| The Goal Is One | |
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| One Light, Different Windows | |
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| The Authentic Human Being | |
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| Rumi and the Ox | |
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| The Moon Is the Same Moon | |
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| You Yourself Become Illusion | |
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| The Elephant, the Candle, and the Eye of the Sea | |
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| Don't Listen to the Trickster | |
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| A Quarrel about Grapes | |
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| Lift Now the Lid of the Jar of Heaven | |
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| The Three Pearls | |
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| The Thicker the Veil, the More Valuable the Jewel | |
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| Become the Sun Itself | |
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| The Real Pilgrimage Is Inward | |
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| The Thirsty Man, the Wall, and the Water | |
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| False Thinking | |
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| The Paradox | |
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| The Place of Honor | |
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| Busy Yourself with That Head | |
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| Taste with Discrimination | |
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| You Are Loved by Him | |
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| Leave the Vulture Behind | |
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| Such a Passion and Longing | |
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| The Heart's the Only Real House of Safety | |
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| Keep Your Heart Awake | |
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| Measuring out the Sugar | |
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| Nearness Is of Many Kinds | |
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| Keep Moving, Keep Growing | |
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| Make Yourself Ready to Do All He Wants | |
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| On the Limits of Fatalism | |
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| Another Alchemy | |
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| On Repentance | |
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| More Than One Stage Has to Be Transcended | |
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| See to It That You Pray Constantly | |
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| The Soul and the Spirit of Prayer | |
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| The Pure Name | |
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| Your Longing for Me Was My Messenger to You | |
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| All through the Night God Is Calling Us | |
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| Moses and the Shepherd | |
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| True Consciousness | |
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| The Sublime Art of Gathering-in | |
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| Draw Strength from Reality through Form | |
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| Find a Home in the Heights | |
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| Be Worthy of My Gifts | |
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| The Man of God | |
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| Become a Fool | |
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| Resurrection | |
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| A Life without Love Isn't a Life | |
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| Not the Garden but the Gardener | |
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| See the Friend Directly | |
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| Love is All That Exists | |
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| The Soul of Reality | |
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| The Root of the Entire Matter | |
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| Through Love | |
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| Only Love Can Explain Love | |
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| The Beloved Is Everything | |
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| Secret Ways | |
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| Astounding Comfort | |
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| Love, the Black Lion | |
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| Let Yourself Be Killed by Him | |
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| My Heart is "Light upon Light" | |
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| Lover and Love Are Only One | |
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| Rose Garden after Rose Garden | |
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| Love's Intelligences | |
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| Look for Passion, Passion, Passion, Passion | |
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| Love Makes the Seas Boil Like a Pot | |
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| It Itself Becomes Sign | |
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| Joy Will Unveil Itself | |
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| Destruction Precedes Renewal | |
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| Enter the Furnace | |
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| The Mystery of Misery | |
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| Ordeals by Terror | |
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| The Work of Religion Is Astonishment | |
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| The Sign | |
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| Look for the Happiness of a Supreme Lover | |
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| Grief Is Worth More Than the Empire of This World | |
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| Prudence | |
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| Keep Your Dragon in the Snow | |
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| Give the Serpent a Kiss | |
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| For Love, Like for a Furnace | |
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| Offer Your Life to This Work | |
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| A Supreme Grace | |
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| Gaze in Wonder at the Infinite Rose Garden | |
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| The Housewife and the Chickpea | |
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| He Will Not Let You Die | |
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| Satan | |
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| You Have No Idea What You Are Asking For | |
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| Obstacles on the Path | |
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| One Small Hair | |
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| The Tattoo Artist, the Lion, and the Man of Qazwin | |
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| Peace after Long Exile | |
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| Never Turn Away from Me | |
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| Despair Is a Sin | |
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| Praise God and Be Patient | |
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| The Serpent | |
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| Now Die to Yourself | |
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| My Work's to Risk My Head | |
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| Heaven Is Made of the Smoke of Hearts | |
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| Do Not Despair, My Soul! | |
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| The Desert Where Love Appears | |
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| Waters Constantly Flowing | |
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| Since You Are I, You Who Are Myself | |
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| The Rose Garden Has Flowered | |
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| O Most Glorified One! O Most Holy One! | |
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| She Was Always Referring to Him | |
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| Why Would I Not Be Honest? | |
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| The Highest Rank | |
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| Paradox on Paradox | |
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| What Is This Sacred Dance? | |
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| The Voluntary Slave | |
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| His Rarer Alchemy | |
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| Divine Pride | |
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| You Will Not Hear One from Me | |
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| God Wears Red | |
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| Go Further Always | |
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| The Direct View | |
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| My Burial Ground Will Invite You to Dance | |
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| Stage After Stage | |
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| Become a Sea | |
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| On the First Day of Every Year | |
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| Look for the District of Joy | |
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| United Tenderly | |
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| Reciprocal Loves | |
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| Sources | |
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| Glossary | |