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