The Essential Rumi

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
CONTENTS
On Rumi
A Note on the Organization of This Book
1. The Tavern: Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home
2. Bewilderment: I Have Five Things to Say
3. Emptiness and Silence: The Night Air
4. Spring Giddiness: Stand in the Wake of This Chattering and Grow Airy
5. Feeling Separation: Don\'t Come Near Me
6. Controlling the Desire-Body: How Did You Kill Your Rooster, Husam ?
7. Sohbet: Meetings on the Riverbank
8. Being a Lover: The Sunrise Ruby
9. The Pickaxe: Getting to the Treasure Beneath the Foundation
10. Art as Flirtation with Surrender: Wanting New Silk Harp Strings
11. Union: Gnats Inside the Wind
12. The Sheikh: I Have Such a Teacher
13. Recognizing Elegance: Your Reasonable Father
14. The Howling Necessity: Cry Out in Your Weakness
15. Teaching Stories: How the Unseen World Works
16. Rough Metaphors: More Teaching Stories
17. Solomon Poems: The Far Mosque
18. The Three Fish: Gamble Everything for Love
19. Jesus Poems: The Population of the World
20. In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: More Teaching Stories
21. Beginning and End: The Stories That Frame the Mathnawi
22. Green Ears Everywhere: Children Running Through
23. Being Woven: Communal Practice
24. Wished-For Song: Secret Practices
25. Majesty: This We Have Now
26. Evolutionary Intelligence: Say I Am You
27. The Turn: Dance in Your Blood
Notes
A Note on These Translations and a Few Recipes
References