Rumi: The Book of Love电子书

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Magnificent Regions of the Heart

A Brief Account of Rumi's Life

Chapter 1

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 2

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 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

Like Light Over This Plain

Candlelight Becomes Moth

The Basket of Fresh Bread

When you are with everyone but me...

This Torture

Chapter 10

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 11

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 12

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 13

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 14

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 15

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 16

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 17

Rules About Restraint

The Company of Lovers

The Look That Opens

Straw and Grasses

Friend, our closeness is this...

Chapter 18

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 19

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 20

The Source of Joy

Roses Underfoot

Poetry

Birdsong from Inside the Egg

Eastern Mystery

No Flag

Chapter 21

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 22

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

Books by Coleman Barks

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher