Rumi: The Book of Love

Cover
Title Page
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction: The Magnificent Regions of the Heart
A Brief Account of Rumi’s Life
Chapter One: Spontaneous Wandering
Excuse My Wandering
Five Things
The Many Wines
Cooked Heads
Where You Love From
You’ve So Distracted Me
In Your Light I Learn How to Love
Drumsound Rises on the Air
Are You Jealous of the Ocean’s Generosity?
There’s Nothing Ahead
Chapter Two: Sohbet: Who You Talking To?
Response to Your Question
If You Want What Visible Reality Can Give
Special Plates
You Are Not Your Eyes
What Was Said to the Rose
The Music
Imra’u ‘l-Qays
Chapter Three: The Superabundance of Ordinary Being
Zuleikha
Put this Design in Your Carpet
The Road Home
This is Enough
Uzayr
Out of Nowhere A Horse
Amazed Mouth
Birdsong, Wind
Begin
Chapter Four: Sudden Wholeness
This Market
The Music We Are
Walnuts
You that Come to Birth and Bring the Mysteries
No Better Gift
This Moment this Love Comes to Rest in Me
The Clear Bead at the Center Changes Everything
A Thousand Half-Loves
Pattern
Auction
Chapter Five: Escaping into Silence
Quietness
Some Kiss We Want
The Waterwheel
Blessing the Marriage
Two Days of Silence
I Hear Nothing in My Ear But Your Voice
Which is Worth More, A Crowd of Thousands
Passage into Silence
Chapter Six: A New Life
Escaping to the Forest
Love Comes Sailing Through, And I Scream
Any Chance Meeting
Nasuh’s Changing
If You Love Love
What I Say Makes Me Drunk
The Circle
Chapter Seven: Grief
The Death of Saladin
Birdwings
The Silent Articulation of a Face
The Allure of Love
Sky-Circles
I Throw it All Away
Your Face
I’ve Broken Through to Longing Now
The Center Leads to Love
My Work is to Carry this Love
Pale Sunlight
The Purpose of Emotion
The Ground’s Generosity Takes in Our Compost
Chapter Eight: Tavern Madness
I am a Glass of Wine with Dark Sediment
Smoke
I’m not Saying this Right
Who Says Words with My Mouth?
We have a Huge Barrel of Wine, But no Cups
Real Value Comes with Madness
A Cap to Wear in Both Worlds
Midnight, But Your Forehead
There’s a Strange Frenzy in My Head
Fringe
Drunks Fear the Police
The Ache and Confusion
Let the Lover be Disgraceful, Crazy
Wonder without Willpower
Chapter Nine: Absence
Chapter Nine: Absence
Candlelight Becomes Moth
The Basket of Fresh Bread
When you are with Everyone But Me
This Torture
Chapter Ten: Animal Energies
Think That You’re Gliding out from the Face of a Cliff
The Public Bath
Mashallah
Spirit and Body
Breadmaking
Sexual Urgency and True Virility
Two Ways of Running
Chapter Eleven: Love’s Secret
Close to Being True
What Hurts the Soul?
Love is the way messengers
Hidden Inside
If Everyone Could See What Love Is
They Try to Say What You Are, Spiritual or Sexual
Come to the orchard in spring…
Chapter Twelve: Love’s Discipline
Who Makes These Changes?
Drowning
The Dog Problem
Zikr
The Core of Masculinity
Clear Being
The Soul’s Friend
Longing
The Morning Wind Spreads Its Fresh Smell
What Draws You?
Fear
A Teacher’s Pay
Looking into the Creek
The Polisher
Chapter Thirteen: Shift from Romance to Friendship
Burnt Kabob
Sitting in the Orchard
The Prince of Kabul
The Wrist
If the Beloved is Everywhere
The King, the Handmaiden, and The Doctor
Reason has No Way to Say
Chapter Fourteen: Union
The Sunrise Ruby
The Generations I Praise
One Swaying Being
Held Like This, To Draw in Milk
Hangover Remorse
Soul, Heart, and Body One Morning
Today, Like Every Other Day, We Wake Up Empty
Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
Chapter Fifteen: Die Before You Die
Judge a Moth by the Beauty of its Candle
Husam
Lovers are Alive to the Extent
That Quick
Empty Boat
In the Slaughterhouse of Love they Kill Only
I Trust You
Imadu’l-Mulk
You Have Said What You Are
Some Nights Stay Up Till Dawn
Chapter Sixteen: Harsh Evidence
Kharraqani’s Marriage
Harsh Evidence
The Stupid Things I’ve Done
Candle at Noon
Dervishes
Doves
When Words Are Tinged with Lying
There You Are
A Night Full of Talking That Hurts
There’s a Shredding That’s Really a Healing
Dance, When You’re Broken Open
All I Know of Spirit
Your Defects
Chapter Seventeen: Meditation Pavane
Rules About Restraint
The Company of Lovers
The Look That Opens
Straw and Grasses
Friend, Our Closeness is This
Chapter Eighteen: Love Dogs
The Ocean Surge
Love Dogs
Inside Water, A Waterwheel Turns
No Better Love than Love with No Object
A Great Wagon
Blasphemy and the Core
You’re Song
Keep Walking, Though There’s No Place to Get To
Chapter Nineteen: One Stroke Down
Lightning, Your Presence
I Can Break Off From Anyone
The Friend Comes into My Body
Wooden Cages
More Range
Ayaz and the King’s Pearl
Hallaj
Chapter Twenty: Love’s Excess
The Source of Joy
Roses Underfoot
Poetry
Birdsong from Inside the Egg
Eastern Mystery
No Flag
Chapter Twenty-One: Love’s Bewilderment
God only Knows, I don’t
I Reach for a Piece of Wood. It Turns into a Lute
In Complete Control, Pretending Control
Moses and the Shepherd
The Minute I Heard My First Love Story
Morning Wind
The Ocean’s Motion
Ignorance
Chapter Twenty-Two: Lord of the Heart
I am so Small I Can Barely be Seen
Eyes
I am Filled With You
When You Feel Your Lips Becoming Infinite
The Granary
The Gazing-House
The Guest House
The One Thing You Must Do
This We Have Now
A Note on Translation
Notes
Index of Titles and First Lines
About the Author
Credits
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