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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rumi's Life and Times | |
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| Some Claims About Poetry and Consciousness | |
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| Fana and Baqa | |
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| The Question of the Personal | |
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| A Note About This Book | |
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| A Green Shawl: Solomon's Far Mosque | |
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| Entrance Door | |
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| What Was Told, That | |
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| Mary's Hiding | |
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| I want to be where... | |
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| Would you like to have revealed to you... | |
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| Imagining is like feeling around... | |
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| The Husk and Core of Masculinity | |
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| Initiation: The Necessary Pain of Changing | |
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| Work in the Invisible | |
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| A Necessary Autumn Inside Each | |
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| Pain | |
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| A Surprise of Roses | |
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| More Range | |
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| Choose a Suffering | |
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| Climb to the Execution Place | |
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| Watch a One-Year-Old | |
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| Baqa: Inside This Ordinary Daylight | |
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| Walkingstick Dragon | |
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| The Opener | |
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| Soul Light and Sun the Same | |
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| The Pattern Improves | |
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| You're from a country beyond this universe... | |
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| Essence is emptiness... | |
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| We're not afraid of God's blade... | |
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| Come to this street with... | |
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| Spring overall. But inside us... | |
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| This is how I would die... | |
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| How will you know the difficulties... | |
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| Love is the way messengers... | |
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| Begin | |
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| Back to Being | |
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| Three Travelers Tell Their Dreams | |
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| This Speech: The Source of Dream Vision | |
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| Looking into the Creek | |
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| Forth | |
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| Hometown Streets | |
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| A Trace | |
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| Creator of Absence and Presence | |
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| A Ship Gliding over Nothing | |
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| Omar and the Old Poet | |
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| One Altar: The Inner Meaning of Religions | |
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| One Song | |
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| The Indian Tree | |
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| Your Face | |
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| Let the Way Itself Arrive | |
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| A Cross-Eyed Student | |
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| Dear Soul | |
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| Four Words for What We Want | |
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| Four Interrupted Prayers | |
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| Spiritual Windowshoppers | |
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| The clear bead at the center... | |
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| A Small Dog Trying to Get You to Play: The Lighthearted Path | |
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| Pictures of the Soul | |
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| Soul and the Old Woman | |
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| The Core | |
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| Duck Wisdom | |
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| Pebble Zikr | |
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| Feet Becoming Head | |
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| Thirst: Water's Voice | |
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| What We Hear in a Friend's Voice | |
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| Talking and God's Love of Variety | |
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| Amazed Mouth | |
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| No longer a stranger, you listen... | |
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| The King's Falcon on a Kitchen Shelf: How It Feels to Live Apart from Majesty | |
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| The City of Saba | |
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| The Thief | |
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| The King's Falcon | |
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| The Ground's Generosity | |
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| Sick of Scripture | |
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| Medicine | |
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| Witness: Stay at the Flame's Core | |
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| The Creek and the Stars | |
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| Night Thieves | |
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| Inshallah | |
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| Thinking and the Heart's Mystical Way | |
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| Paradox | |
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| Empty Boat | |
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| Whereabouts Unknown | |
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| The Level of Words | |
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| To the Extent They Can Die | |
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| Soul Joy: You Feel a River Moving in You | |
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| Moving Water | |
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| Uncle of the Jar | |
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| When Words Are Tinged with Lying | |
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| Joy moves always to new locations... | |
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| The Source of Joy | |
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| A road might end at a single house... | |
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| Rise. Move around the center... | |
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| A Story They Know | |
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| Roses Underfoot | |
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| I open and fill with love and... | |
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| Any cup I hold fills with wine... | |
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| Turning the Refuse of Damascus: Work with the One Who Keeps Time | |
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| Mashallah | |
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| Cleansing Conflict | |
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| Shadow and Light Source Both | |
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| Wealth Without Working | |
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| Love for Certain Work | |
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| The Hoopoe's Talent | |
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| When school and mosque and minaret... | |
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| Not until a person dissolves, can... | |
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| While you are still yourself... | |
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| Grief Song, Praise Song: Peacefulness with Death | |
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| On the Day I Die | |
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| One who does what the Friend wants done... | |
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| Childhood, youth, and maturity... | |
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| The angel of death arrives... | |
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| When you come back inside my chest... | |
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| Last night things flowed between us... | |
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| I placed one foot on the wide plain... | |
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| Longing is the core of mystery... | |
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| Time to Sacrifice Taurus | |
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| The Sheikh Who Lost Two Sons | |
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| What's Inside the Ground | |
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| A Brightening Floor | |
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| The Death of Saladin | |
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| At the Outermost Extension of Empire: Diving into Qualities | |
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| Qualities | |
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| Wooden Cages | |
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| Prayer Is an Egg | |
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| Mutakallim: Speaking with a Group | |
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| Evidence | |
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| Two Donkeys | |
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| The Indian Parrot | |
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| Living as Evidence: The Way from Wanting to Longing | |
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| I Pass by the Door | |
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| Border Stations | |
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| Wind That Mixes in Your Fire | |
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| The Different Moon Shapes | |
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| Husam | |
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| Garnet Red: In the Madhouse Gnawing on Chains | |
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| Evening Sky Garnet Red | |
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| The Sweet Blade of Your Anger | |
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| Fourteen Questions | |
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| Asylum | |
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| What's the lover to do... | |
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| Someone who does not run... | |
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| This mud body... | |
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| There's no light like yours, no breeze... | |
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| The Silent Articulation of a Face | |
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| A Small Green Island | |
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| Your eyes, when they really see... | |
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| Both Wings Broken | |
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| Extravagance: Exuberance That Informs and Streams Beyond | |
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| There You Are | |
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| Come Horseback | |
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| Wilder Than We Ever | |
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| Night: Darkness, Living Water | |
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| Last night, the Friend... | |
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| Flowers open every night... | |
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| You that prefer, as crows do... | |
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| Don't sleep now. Let the turning... | |
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| What Hurts the Soul? | |
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| Midnight, but your forehead... | |
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| Some Kiss We Want | |
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| Dawn: Spring Morning Listening | |
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| The Generations I Praise | |
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| Hunt Music | |
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| Knowledge Beyond Love | |
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| Soul, Heart, and Body One Morning | |
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| Drawn by Soup | |
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| She Is the Creator | |
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| The Banquet: This Is Enough Was Always True | |
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| This Is Enough | |
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| The Music We Are | |
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| Joseph | |
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| YHU | |
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| The Moment | |
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| Poetry: The Song of Being Empty | |
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| Cup | |
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| Glory to Mutabilis | |
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| All We Sell | |
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| Poetry and Cooking Tripe | |
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| Is This a Place Where Stories Are Acted Out? | |
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| A Song of Being Empty | |
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| A Salve Made with Dirt | |
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| What I Say Makes Me Drunk | |
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| Pilgrim Notes: Chance Meetings, Dignity, and Purpose | |
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| Not Here | |
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| Cry Out Your Grief | |
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| Broom Work | |
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| A Clean Sandy Spot | |
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| Two Sacks | |
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| Any Chance Meeting | |
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| The One Thing You Must Do | |
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| Apple Orchards in Mist: Being in Between Language and the Soul's Truth | |
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| You Are Not Your Eyes | |
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| Prayer to Be Changed | |
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| A Small Market Between Towns | |
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| Lovers in Law School | |
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| Cup and Ocean | |
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| The Joke of Materialism: Turning Bread into Dung | |
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| Mounted Man | |
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| This Disaster | |
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| Sneezing Out Animals | |
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| Not Intrigued with Evening | |
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| How Attraction Happens | |
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| Book Beauty | |
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| Under the Hill | |
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| Fana: Dissolving Beyond Doubt and Certainty | |
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| In the Waves and Underneath | |
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| Infidel Fish | |
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| A Star with No Name | |
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| Rush Naked | |
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| Die Before You Die | |
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| Refuge | |
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| Love with No Object | |
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| The Road Home | |
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| Come Out and Give Something | |
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| Two Human-Sized Wedding Candles | |
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| Blessing the Marriage | |
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| One Swaying Being | |
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| Human Grief: We Are Sent to Eat the World | |
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| I've broken through to longing ... | |
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| The center leads to love ... | |
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| This Battered Saucepan | |
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| A Delicate Girl | |
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| The Threat of Death | |
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| Twenty Small Graves | |
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| I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow ... | |
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| Sour, Doughy, Numb, and Raw | |
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| I could not have known ... | |
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| Inner Sun: No More the Presence | |
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| The Breast My Heart Nurses | |
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| No More the Presence | |
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| Out in the Open Air | |
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| The Eye of the Heart | |
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| A Deep Nobility | |
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| Sacrifice: Remember Leaving Egypt | |
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| Remember Egypt | |
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| Astrological Bickerings | |
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| Extract the Thorn | |
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| When Friends Meet: The Most Alive Moment | |
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| The Most Alive Moment | |
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| The Soul's Friend | |
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| Inside Shams's Universe | |
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| Like Light over This Plain | |
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| Wake and Walk Out | |
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| Form Is Ecstatic | |
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| The Reedbed of Silence: Opening to Absence | |
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| Back into the Reedbed! | |
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| A Vague Trace | |
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| The Taste | |
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| I hear nothing in my ear ... | |
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| The Uses of Community: The Plural You | |
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| Love Dervishes | |
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| The Communal Heart | |
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| Bowls of Food | |
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| Blade | |
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| Eye of Water: Clairvoyance, Being Several Places at Once, and the Rainpaths of Inspiration | |
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| Cooked Heads | |
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| Float, Trust, Enjoy | |
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| Light Breeze | |
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| Sitting Together | |
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| Seeing with the Eye of Water We Float On | |
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| Solomon's Sight | |
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| Music: Patience and Improvisation | |
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| We No Longer See the One Who Teaches Us | |
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| Music Loosens Deafness | |
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| Jami's The Camel Driver's Song | |
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| Gratitude for Teachers: The Lesson of Dogs | |
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| The Three Stooges | |
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| Listen to the Dogs | |
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| The Bow to Adam | |
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| To Trust the Ocean | |
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| Strange Gathering | |
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| Auction | |
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| Scatterbrain Sweetness | |
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| Every Section of Road | |
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| A Cap to Wear in Both Worlds | |
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| Forgiveness: As a Christian Disappears into Grace | |
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| The Spring | |
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| The Way That Moves as You Move | |
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| We Prescribe a Friend | |
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| What You've Been Given | |
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| Now I lay me down to stay ... | |
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| Grace Got Confused | |
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| Soul Art: The Hungry Animal and the Connoisseur | |
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| One Human Gesture | |
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| The Mangy Calf | |
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| Beggars | |
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| If You Want to Live Your Soul | |
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| More Pilgrim Notes: Habits That Blind the Psyche | |
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| Habits That Blind the Psyche | |
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| Dolls That Pull the Stuffing Out of Each Other | |
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| Being Slow to Blame | |
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| Cuisine and Sex | |
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| The soul fell into the soup ... | |
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| Be clear and smiling for those who ... | |
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| No Discussion | |
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| One Who Can Quit Seeing Himself | |
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| The Mystery of Renunciation: A Way of Leaving the World That Nourishes the World | |
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| A Way of Leaving the World | |
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| One-Handed Basket Weaving | |
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| Not a Food Sack, a Reed Flute | |
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| The Flower's Eye | |
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| Sheikh Sarrazi Comes in from the Wilderness | |
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| I Throw It All Away | |
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| Warrior Light: How One Embodies the Collective | |
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| Warrior Light | |
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| Inside Solitude | |
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| The Bear's True Dance | |
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| Choosing and Total Submission: Both Are True | |
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| Choosing and Total Submission | |
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| These Decisions | |
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| Fringe | |
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| Book IV of the Masnavi | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rumi's Wild Soul Book | |
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| Mud and Glory | |
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| The Form of the Whole | |
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| Being God's Spies | |
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| Book IV | |
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| A Note on These Translations and on the Currency of Rumi in the United States | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index of Titles and First Lines | |
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| Contents of Book IV | |
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| Acknowledgments | |