A Year with Rumi

• Author : Coleman Barks
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 13 October 2009

Coleman Barks has played a central role in making the Sufi mystic Rumi the most popular poet in the world. A Year with Rumi brings together 365 of Barks's elegant and beautiful translations of Rumi's greatest poems, including fifteen never-before-published poems. Barks includes an Introduction that sets Rumi in his context and an Afterword musing on poetry of the mysterious and the sacred. Join Coleman Barks and Rumi for a year-long journey into the mystical and sacred within and without. Join

• Author : Ergin Ergul
• Publisher : 2e ebooks
• Release : 28 April 2022

Rumi (1207-1273) is one of the most influential Sufi saints, universal thinkers, spiritual masters, and mystic poets of all times. His message is universal, and his call is for the whole of humanity. Today, in our world, which has turned into a global village, problems such as conflicts, wars, crimes, epidemics have also become global. Moreover, they had more severe and quick effects at national and international levels. Rumi's timeless wisdom can guide us in this challenging time's individual, social,

• Author : Elisabeth Ellington,Jane Freimiller
• Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
• Release : 04 October 2016

Desire a book to cozy up with by a wintery window? How about an addictive page-turner for sunbathing on the beach? Thousands of new books are published each year, and if you're a book lover or just book curious choosing what to read next can seem like an impossible task. A Year of Reading relieves the anxiety by helping you find just the right read, and includes fun and interactive subcategories for each choice, including: • Description and history • Extra credit •

• Author : Shiva Rea
• Publisher : Sounds True
• Release : 18 April 2014

"We are created in rhythm, kept alive in rhythm, evolve through rhythm. Tides, breath, and blood flow in rhythm. We are born into a universe of currents, and our heart is the great conductor of the body, orchestrating our flow." The mystical foundations of all the world's spiritual paths meet in a single, sacred place: the heart of the seeker. We have reached a time when scientific understanding mirrors the teachings of the great wisdom traditions in revealing our energetic

• Author : Priya Vaswani
• Publisher : Balboa Press
• Release : 15 December 2016

I STAND AT THE FOOTHILL, ENORMITY REIGNS MY FEARS. MIGHTY IT LOOKS TO THE EYES, THE LAYERS OF MY TEARS. COME TO ME IN SWEET SURRENDER, OPEN LIKE THE LOTUS BLOOM. FITTING LIKE THE HAND IN GLOVE, HEART TO HEART REVERE. FIELDS OF FLUORESCENT BLOOMING PETALS, SWEET FRAGRANCE PLAYS MY SENSES. SERENE THE SHEATH OF BALMY WINDS, ETERNAL LOVE AND UNION. LIFE CHANGES LIKE THE COLOR OF THE SKY, SHY FROM THE RAYS OF THE MORNING SUN. SUBTLE GRAY FROM

• Author : Laurie A. Burke,Edward (Ted) Rynearson
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 31 March 2022

The Restorative Nature of Ongoing Connections with the Deceased is a guide to stimulating thought and discussion about ongoing attachments between bereaved individuals and their deceased loved ones. Chapters promote broad, inclusive training and dialogue for working with clients who establish and/or maintain a restorative connection with their deceased loved one as well as those who find aspects of such connections to be psychologically or spiritually problematic or troublesome. Bereavement professionals will come away from this book with a

• Author : James C. Harrington,Sidney G. Hall III
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 11 February 2015

In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de León, and Meister Eckhart—three of the greatest mystics of all time—meet in Venice for an imaginary night-long conversation that will inspire everyday individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic. Although the mystics came from different backgrounds and religious traditions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity), their spiritual paths led them to similar understandings of a union

• Author : Yahiya Emerick
• Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
• Release : 05 February 2008

Discover moving meditation with one of today's top-selling poets. Rumi was a 13th-century Sufi theologian and poet who spoke of love, unity with God, and spiritual growth. Rumi and his followers, known as the Whirling Dervishes, employed music, poetry, and dance to become closer to God. This guide brings the unique practice of moving meditation to American readers, offering more than 40 meditations based on Rumi's poems. ? Includes a timeline of Rumi's life, a glossary, and resources for further exploration

• Author : Roger Sedarat
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 01 June 2019

Examines the impact of Persian poetry in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson in Iran is the first full-length study of Persian influence in the work of the seminal American poet, philosopher, and translator, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Extending the current trend in transnational studies back to the figural origins of both the United States and Iran, Roger Sedarat’s insightful comparative readings of Platonism and Sufi mysticism reveal how Emerson managed to reconcile through verse two countries so seemingly

• Author : Anne R. Richards,Iraj Omidvar
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 10 February 2014

Offering readers an engaging, accessible, and balanced account of the contributions of American Muslims to the contemporary United States, this important book serves to clarify misrepresentations and misunderstandings regarding Muslim Americans and Islam. • Identifies the contributions of Muslims to American fiction, poetry, music, food, architecture, and other cultural forms to document the breadth of their contributions • Highlights the ways in which Muslims have been, and continue to be, routinely depicted negatively in American literature, film, and religious discourse, and documents

• Author : Elif Shafak
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 02 June 2011

*The international bestseller* "Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..." Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet

• Author : Franklin D. Lewis
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 01 October 2014

The definitive study of the world's bestselling poet Drawing on a vast array of sources, from writings of the poet himself to the latest scholarly literature, this new anniversary edition of the award-winning work examines the background, the legacy, and the continuing significance of Jalâl al-Din Rumi, today’s bestselling poet in the United States. With new translations of over fifty of Rumi’s poems and including never before seen prose, this landmark study celebrates the astounding appeal of

• Author : Elif Batuman
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 24 May 2022

From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin’s quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it’s sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that

• Author : Farinaz Parsay
• Publisher : Balboa Press
• Release : 12 July 2016

In this book, Farinaz Parsay takes the reader on a journey of looking back at her life and reviewing the lessons learned in the process of her own transformation. Based on that, she concludes the following: Perhaps life is the story of not reliving the past but letting it go by seeking the gifts of healing. Perhaps life is having more compassion for oneself and the courage to face and embrace our fears while moving through the healing process. Perhaps

• Author : Harold Klemp
• Publisher : ECKANKAR
• Release : 23 September 2021

The simple truth is that you are Soul, a divine, conscious spark of God made manifest in this life to experience and learn. Through millennia--and to the present day--a succession of spiritual masters has been watching and guiding us. The latest of these is the author of this book, Sri Harold Klemp, the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master. Spiritual Lessons from Living, Mahanta Transcripts, Book 18, is a collection of his talks from 2006 to 2014. He observes that "We bump around, and