Rumi

Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart

By: Coleman Barks

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Hardcover | 1 November 2007

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2007 is the "Year of Rumi," and who better than Coleman Barks, Rumi's unlikely, supremely passionate ambassador, to mark the milestone of this great poet's 800th birthday? Barks, who was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in Persian language and literature by the University of Tehran for his thirty years of translating Rumi, has collected and translated ninety new poems, most of them never published before in any form. The result is this beautiful edition titled Rumi: Bridge to the Soul. The "bridge" in the title is a reference to the Khajou Bridge in Isphahan, Iran, which Barks visited with Robert Bly in May of 2006'a trip that in many ways prompted this book. The "soul bridge" also suggests Rumi himself, who crosses cultures and religions and brings us all together to listen to his words, regardless of origin or creed. Open this book and let Rumi's poetry carry you into the interior silence and joy of the spirit, the place that unites conscious knowing with a deeper, more soulful understanding.

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Bridge, Poem, Awareness Moving Through	p. 1
Travel Notes	p. 13
A Bowl Fallen from the Roof	p. 27
A Story They Know	p. 28
Harvest	p. 29
Inhale Autumn, Long for Spring	p. 30
Leaves About to Let Go	p. 32
A Light Within His Light	p. 34
A King Dressed as a Servant	p. 36
As the Sky Does in Water	p. 37
The Time of Divulging	p. 38
Empty	p. 41
Nicknames	p. 42
New Blossoms	p. 43
Split the Sack	p. 44
Any Sprig of an Herb	p. 46
Secret Places	p. 48
Doorsill	p. 49
Flightpaths	p. 50
Music and Silence	p. 51
Earsight	p. 52
The Talking	p. 53
Currency	p. 54
Water from the Well of the Soul	p. 56
Another Invitation	p. 57
The One Who Left	p. 58
Disciplines	p. 59
Pieces of a Broken Cup	p. 60
Spilled Speech	p. 62
Soul Houses	p. 64
The Wave of That Agreement	p. 66
Calm in the Midst of Lightning	p. 67
Avalanche	p. 68
Pure Silence	p. 69
What Fear of Loss	p. 70
A Mountain Nest	p. 71
Miles of Riverside Canebed	p. 72
Solomon and the Wind of Speaking	p. 74
A Mixed-Breed Apple	p. 75
No Expectations	p. 76
Mountaintop Trough	p. 78
What You Gave	p. 80
Your Turn at Dice	p. 81
Holiday Without Limits	p. 82
Outdoors and the Passion of the Grass	p. 84
A Preposterous Guess	p. 86
Asleep and Listening	p. 87
Pearl	p. 88
Green Writ	p. 89
Look at a Fountain	p. 90
Desolation	p. 91
The Dance of Your Hidden Life	p. 92
Let the Soup Simmer	p. 94
The Only Obligation	p. 95
Butcher and Sheep	p. 96
I See the Face	p. 97
The Meeting	p. 98
The Living Doubleness	p. 100
The Value of This Moment	p. 102
Ocean Light	p. 103
Like a Fig	p. 104
Gone for Good	p. 105
Two Lovings	p. 106
Talking to the Luck-Bird	p. 107
Alive with Scripture	p. 108
Faint Lament of Form	p. 110
This High Meadow	p. 112
Granted	p. 114
Saladin's Leaving	p. 116
What You Have Despised in Yourself	p. 117
Winter or Summer	p. 118
Abraham and Isaac	p. 120
I Ask One More Thing	p. 122
Seeds and Rain	p. 124
One Being Inside All	p. 125
Struck Tent	p. 126
Open Window	p. 127
Full Sun	p. 128
I Rocked My Own Chest	p. 129
You Shall Not See Me	p. 130
A Beautiful Walk Inside You	p. 132
Leaving	p. 134
Energy You Can Spend	p. 136
One Thing I Did Wrong	p. 138
A Northern Wind	p. 139
Midnight and Sunrise	p. 140
The Creation Word	p. 141
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