Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
By Rumi, Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin
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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.
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