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Rumi's masterpieces have inspired countless people throughout the centuries. Coleman Barks's renderings of the thirteenth-century Persian mystic present Rumi's inward exploration and intensity, making his voice feel contemporary while remaining close to the original poems.
In this volume readers will encounter the essence of Sufism's insights into the experience of divine love, wisdom, and the nature of both humanity and God. These poems express our deepest yearning for the transcendent: passionate outbursts about the torment of longing for the beloved and the sweet delight that comes from union; stories of sexual adventure and of loss; poems of love and fury, sadness and joy; and quiet truths about the beauty and variety of human emotion.
For Rumi, soul, body, and emotion are not separate but are part of the great mystery of mortal life, a riddle whose solution is love. Above all else, Rumi's poetry exposes us to the delight that comes from being fully alive, urging us always to put aside our fears and take the risk of discovering our core.
No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.
These translations convey Rumi's insights into the human heart and its longings with passion and daring, focusing on the ecstatic experience of the inseparability of human and divine love.
Inside A Lover's Heart There's Another World, And Yet Another
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