A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
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A year with the sensual, mysterious, and deeply spiritual poetry of Rumi, in a translation featuring 15 debut poems--365 poems for your daily dose of inspiration, spiritual healing, and deep self-reflection This stunning collection is a divine journey across each month of the year, offering 365 daily poetry reflections that with leave you both breathless and hopeful. Poet Coleman Barks has played a central role in making the Sufi mystic Rumi the most popular poet in the world, and in this volume, he brings Rumi's words to life, allowing their beacon of light to allow us to reconnect with ourselves, and others, by recognizing the divine in the sublime, in the ordinary, and in us all. Full of contemplation and deeply moving and profound prose, these poems allow readers to start each day fully present and aware of all the beauty around us, and the innate power and strength we each hold--in every moment of every day. Take a moment for yourself with this daily dose of innate wisdom and positive affirmations for self-love, compassion, and trust in the divine power of the universe and our place in it. "The poetry feels like it belongs to all. When Rumi died in 1273, members of all religions came to the funeral. Wherever you stand, his words deepen your connection to the mystery of being alive." - Coleman Barks
| Dimensions | 13.97 x 3.38 x 18.75 cm |
| Isbn 10 | 006084597X |
| Isbn 13 | 978-0060845971 |
| Item Weight | 416 g |
| Language | English |
| Print Length | 432 pages |
| Publication Date | 31 Oct. 2006 |
| Publisher | HarperOne |
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Good buy
Good book
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Sheer joy
I almost feel that reviewing Rumi is something I am unworthy to do. The introduction by Coleman Banks, who has made it his life work to make Rumi the go-to spiritual poet, is in itself an inspiring piece of writing. And the poems - what to say? Wonderful
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Excellent readings
I rated this highly for its wide range of readings that go straight to the intuitive sense; and its artistry. I know that Coleman Barks is an excellent translator. It’s worth complementing these short poems with Barks' translations of Rumi's longer works.
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A very appreciated gift for a young couple.
Gave as a gift and was informed by recipient that it is a great book to have on the breakfast table for daily inspiration.
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Better than a pick-me-up.
Love this little book. A reading a day provides enough food for thought.
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Enjoying the poems
Love this book! I’m enjoying reading the poems.
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Illuminating
Holiday read
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Five Stars
Beautiful set of translations by the wonderful Coleman Barks
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Beautiful, profoundly moving, radiant, transcendent
This is … so many things: Beautiful, profoundly moving, radiant, transcendent. I also found it heartbreaking at times while somehow, often consoling in the same breath.I actually started reading this in 2019, but missed so many days that I started it over in 2020. And a more propitious time for me to have chosen to read this I can't even imagine, for so many reasons. This book has been one of the things that has helped sustain me in a very difficult year. I plan to read it all over again in 2021, and possibly beyond.Since I'm posting this on Dec. 31, and because I can never think of a better way to recommend or to express the essence of a written work than to share some of it, here is an excerpt from the book. Fittingly, these are the December 30 and December 31 readings. I am particularly partial to the first line (which puts me so much in mind of Leonard Cohen's song "Love Itself" - one of my most beloved songs of all time, and if you don't know it: Go find and listen to it!), and also to the final half of the poem:"Say Who I Am (1)I am dust particles in sunlightI am the round sun.To the bits of dust I say, Stay.To the sun, Keep movingI am the morning mist,and the breathing of evening.I am wind in the top of a grove,and surf on the cliff.Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,I am also the coral reef they founder on.I am a tree with a trained parrot in it's branches.Silence, thought, and voice.""Say Who I Am (2)The musical air coming through a flute,a spark off a stone, a flickering in metal.Both candle,and the moth crazy around it.Rose, and the nightingalelost in fragrance.I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,the evolutionary intelligence,the lift and the falling away.What is and what isn't.You who know Jelaluddin,you the one in all,say you I am.Say I am you."Obviously, I highly, highly recommend <3
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Rumi at his best
Exquiste book, beautifully collated, divine writings
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Great read!
The content is interesting and written very well done!
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Excellent book
I love that they’re dated. I read one each morning to start my day.
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Like the style of the book
Great price
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