"Love is a stranger and speaks a strange language," wrote Rumi, one of the world's most beloved mystical poets. His poems of spiritual love still speak directly to our hearts after more than seven hundred years. These classic selections contemplate separation and longing, intoxication and bliss, union and transcendence.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Persian
Original Language: Persian
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Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) was not only a poet, mystic, and the founder of a Sufi order, he was a man of profound insight into the nature of human existence and possibly the greatest mystical poet of any age.
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This review is from: Love Is a Stranger: Selected Lyric Poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi (Paperback)
This is an amazing work and translation. I have read a couple other translations, though none compare to this. Even though capturing the essence of the original Rumi is nigh impossible, this is the wine that is least diluted.
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This book of poetry is lovely if you're into that sort of thing. I bought it for a class, and I found many poems that really spoke to me. I found just as many that I didn't understand. Truth is, Rumi wrote a lot about love and the spirit and the afterlife. Only buy if you're already a fan of Rumi.
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Home base for many of us -- along with Jung -- only recently did I appreciate who came first along this road!
Rumi, as Muslim mystic, also founded the Whirling Dervish branch of Sufism -- for men AND women, we now know -- in Konya, Turkey. (it's worth the trip)
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At breakfast tea a beloved asked her lover, "Who do you love more, yourself or me?" Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
At breakfast tea a beloved asked her lover, "Who do you love more, yourself or me?" Read the first page New!
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- This Longing: Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Selected Letters of Rumi by Jelaluddin Rumi in Back Matter
- The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (Shambhala Classics) by Kabir Helminski in Back Matter
- Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi by Jelaluddin Rumi in Back Matter
- The Drop That Became the Sea: Lyric Poems by Yunus Emre in Back Matter
- The Light of Dawn by Camille Adams Helminski in Back Matter
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- The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis by Laurence Galian on 7 pages
- The Soul in Grief: Love, Death and Transformation by Robert Romanyshyn in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Healing Troubled Hearts: Daily Spiritual Exercises by Lyn Holley Doucet on page 133, and page 243
- Forty Days by Michaela M Ozelsel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Zen-Brain Reflections by James H. Austin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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