Rumi : the book of love : poems of ecstasy and longing
(Book)

Introduction : the magnificent regions of the heart -- A brief account of Rumi's life -- 1. Spontaneous wandering -- Excuse my wandering -- Five things -- The many wines -- Cooked heads -- Where you love from -- You've so distracted me -- In your light I learn how to love -- Drumsound rises on the air -- Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity? -- There's nothing ahead -- 2. Sohbet: who you talking to? -- Response to your question -- If you want what visible reality can give -- Special plates -- You are not your eyes -- What was said to the rose -- The music -- Imr'u 'l-Qays -- 3. The superabundance of ordinary being -- Zuleikha -- Put this design in your carpet -- The road home -- This is enough -- Uzayr -- Out of nowhere a horse -- Amazed mouth -- Birdsong, wind -- Begin -- 4. Sudden wholeness -- This market -- The music we are -- Walnuts -- You that come to birth and bring the mysteries -- No better gift -- this moment this love comes to rest in me -- The clear bead at the center changes everything -- A thousand half-loves -- Pattern -- Auction -- 5. Escaping into silence -- Quietness -- Some kiss we want -- The waterwheel -- Blessing the marriage -- Two days of silence -- I hear nothing in my ear but your voice -- Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands -- Passage into silence -- 6. A new life -- Escaping to the forest -- Love comes sailing through, and I scream -- Any chance meeting -- Nasuh's changing -- If you love love -- What I say makes me drunk -- The circle --7. Grief -- Death of Saladin -- Birdwings -- The silent articulation of a face -- The allure of love -- Sky-circles -- I throw it all away -- Your face -- I've broken through to longing now -- The center leads to love -- My work is to carry this love -- Pale sunlight -- The purpose of emotion -- The ground's generosity takes in our compost -- 8.Tavern Madness -- I am a glass of wine with dark sediment -- Smoke -- I'm not saying this right -- Who says words with my mouth? -- We have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups -- Real value comes with madness -- A cap to wear in both worlds -- Midnight, but your forehead -- There's a strange frenzy in my head -- Fringe -- Drunks fear the police -- The ache and confusion -- Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy -- Wonder without willpower -- 9. Absence -- Like light over this plain -- Candlelight becomes moth -- The basket of fresh bread -- When you are with everyone but me -- This torture -- 10. Animal energies -- Think that you're gliding out from the face of a cliff -- The public bath -- Mashallah -- Spirit and body -- Breadmaking -- Sexual urgency and true virility -- Two ways of running -- 11. Love's secret -- Close to being true -- What hurts the soul? -- Love is the way messengers -- Hidden inside -- If everyone could see what love is -- They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual -- Come to the orchard in spring --

12. Love's discipline

Who makes these changes?

Drowning

The dog problem

Zikr

The core of masculinity

Clear being

The soul's friend

Longing

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell

What draws you?

Fear

A teacher's pay

Looking into the creek

The polisher

13. Shift from romance to friendship

Burnt kabob

Sitting in the orchard

The Prince of Kabul

The wrist

If the beloved is everywhere

The king, the handmaiden, and the doctor

Reason has no way to say

14. Union

The sunrise ruby

The generations I praise

One swaying being

Held like this, to draw in milk

Hangover remorse

Soul, heart, and body one morning

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing

15. Die before you die

Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle

Husam

Lovers are alive to the extent

That quick

Empty boat

In the slaughterhouse of love they kill only

I trust you

Imadu'l Mulk

You have said what you are

Some nights stay up till dawn

16. Harsh evidence

Kharraqani's marriage

Harsh evidence

The stupid things I've done

Candle at noon

Dervishes

Doves

When words are tinged with lying

there you are

A night full of talking that hurts

There's a shredding that's really a healing

Dance, when you're broken open

All I know of spirit

Your defects

17. Meditation Pavane

Rules about restraint

The company of lovers

The look that opens

Straw and grasses

Friend, our closeness is this

18. Love dogs

The ocean surge

Love dogs

Inside water, a waterwheel turns

No better love than love with no object

A great wagon

Blasphemy and the core

You're song

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to

19. One stroke down

Lightning, your presence

I can break off from anyone

The friend comes into my body

More range

Ayaz and the king's pearl

Hallaj

20. Love's excess

The source of joy

Roses underfoot

Poetry

Birdsong from inside the egg

Eastern mystery

No flag

21. Love's bewilderment

God only knows, I don't

I reach for a piece of wood. It turns into a lute

In complete control, pretending control

Moses and the shepherd

The minute I heard my first love story

22. Lord of the heart

I am so small I can barely be seen

Eyes

I am filled with you

When you feel your lips becoming infinite

Granary

Gazing-house

Guest house

One thing you must do

This we have now.