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    Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
    Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
    Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
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    Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

    By Rumi

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    From Madonna to Deepak Chopra, celebrities have been recording and embracing Rumi's poetry for the past two decades, creating a resurgence of interest in this 13th century Sufi mystic.

    Rumi's Little Book of Life is a beautiful collection of 196 poems by Rumi, previously unavailable in English. Translated by native Persian speakers, Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, this collection will appeal to Rumi lovers everywhere.

    This collection of mystical poetry focuses on one of life's core issues: coming to grips with the inner life. During the course of life, each of us is engaged on an inner journey. Rumi's Little Book of Life is a guidebook for that journey. The poetry is a companion for those who consciously enter the inner world to explore the gardens within--out of the everyday "world of dust"--through an ascending hierarchy that restores one's soul to the heart; the heart of the spirit; and in finding spirit, transcending all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHampton Roads Publishing
    Release dateSep 1, 2012
    ISBN9781612832210
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    Rumi

    Rumi was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.

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      Rumi's Little Book of Life - Rumi

      Part One

      Garden of the Soul

      Come back my soul, how much longer

      will you linger in the garden of deceit?

      I have sent you a hundred messages

      I have shown you a hundred ways

      either you never read them

      or you ignore my advice.

      Come back my soul, do not waste

      time with the cold-hearted

      they do not know your worth.

      Why do you seek water

      when you are the stream?

      Have you forgotten? You are

      the king's falcon, you are a ray

      of the Beloved, a divine wonder!

      Indulging our pride, we run after

      every fleeting image.

      How odd that being so unimportant

      we cultivate such grand illusions.

      Do not grieve over past joys, be sure

      they will reappear in another form.

      A child's joy is in milk and

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