Authors: Rumi, Deepak Chopra (Editor), Fereydoun Kia
ISBN-13: 9780609602430, ISBN-10: 0609602438
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: 1ST
Deepak Chopra is the best-selling author of nineteen books, including Ageless Body, Timeless Mind; The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success; and The Path to Love. He is director of educational programs at The Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla, California.
Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human heart for its beloved, for that transcendent intimacy which is the source of the divine. This slender, beautiful volume consists of new translations by Farsi scholar Fereydoun Kia, edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the rich mood and music of Rumi's love poems.
Acknowledgments | 7 | |
Acknowledgments | 9 | |
Introduction | 11 | |
The Agony and Ecstasy of Divine Discontent: The Moods of Rumi | 15 | |
The Agony of Lovers | 17 | |
The Alchemy of Love | 18 | |
Aroused Passion | 20 | |
The Awakening | 21 | |
Behind the Scenes | 23 | |
My Beloved | 24 | |
Bittersweet | 25 | |
My Burning Heart | 28 | |
Caught in the Fire of Love | 30 | |
Come to Me | 31 | |
Defeated by Love | 33 | |
Desire | 34 | |
Do You Love Me? | 35 | |
Dying to Love | 37 | |
The Hunt | 39 | |
I Am and I Am Not | 40 | |
I Am Yours | 42 | |
Intoxicated by Love | 43 | |
Looking for Love | 44 | |
Looking for Your Face | 45 | |
Lost in the Wilderness | 48 | |
The Lover's Passion | 49 | |
The Meaning of Love | 50 | |
The Mythical Lover | 51 | |
Precious Love | 53 | |
Surrender | 55 | |
The Privileged Lovers | 56 | |
Excerpts from Birdsong: "Love is the way messengers" | 59 | |
Excerpts from Birdsong: "A lightwind coming downhill" | 60 | |
Excerpts from Birdsong: "People want you to be happy" | 61 | |
Excerpts from Birdsong: "In your light I learn how to love" | 62 | |
Recommended Reading | 63 |