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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Bahauddin's Maarif
A Note on Translation and Versions of Sama
The Manuscript
Book One
1:1 Blue Robe
1:2-3 One of the Ways God Tastes
1:4 This Cup of Seeing, My Wine
1:8 Sleep-Tree
1:10 Fragrance of an Invisible Flower
1:14-15 Morning Salaams
1:27-29 Boiling Pot
1:29 A Sweetness in Distance
1:34-35 Still Growing
1:42 Forgiveness and Impulse
1:49-50 Loaves at Table
1:52-53 The Night Vigil
1:62-63 Under the Garden
1:64-65 Waiting
1:66 Rust
1:82-83 Farming Work and Attention to Friendship
1:89 Suspended
1:92 The Ways of Essence
1:103-104 Appetites
1:110-111 The Call to Pleasure
1:116 Impudent Banter
1:128-129 In Each
1:129-130 What I Have Just Written
1:130 Prison and Presence
1:131 Doubting
1:137-140 These Attractions
1:143 Describing a Taste
1:144-145 The Beauty of a Face
1:145-146 No Sure Sense
1:146-147 Apart from Purposes
1:147-148 A King in Half-Sleep
1:150 The Quality of What Dies and the Grandeur of the Unmanifest
1:151-153 Bread and Praise
1:168-169 This Glory of Emptiness
1:172-173 One Hour
1:174-175 Wondering Argument
1:188-189 Several Identical Dreams
1:190 High Well-Being
1:191-192 Cities and Blessed Dark
1:194-195 Blind Trust
1:200-201 Mosquitoes
1:207-208 Steadiness
1:210-211 Massive Root System
1:212-213 Every Invigoration
1:221-222 Four Birds
1:224 The Only Buyer
1:228 Dignity and Choice
1:232-233 A Wild Madman-Lover
1:233-234 Motion and Stillness
1:236-237 Oghol the Fool
1:237-238 Islam Is for Finding Friends
1:245-247 Fall Wherever I Fall
1:253-254 The Company of Other Goodnesses
1:261-262 Throw It to the Thieves
1:263 Here We Sit
1:264-265 The Praise-Place
1:267 We May Be Lying
1:271 Why Don't We Cry
1:272 Out Looking for Pleasure
1:275-276 Clear for Me the Me
1:278-279 Serious Courtship
1:293-294 Why Sufis Wear Graveclothes
1:295 If There Is No Joseph
1:295-296 Jacob
1:303-304 Ways of Knowing the Unseen
1:304-305 Take No Credit
1:310 Friendship Brings Beauty into Your Life
1:315-316 White-Bird Sentences
1:316-318 The Special Strength of Muhammad's Lineage
1:323-324 A Bridge Called Saraat
1:324-326 Friday Morning
1:327-328 The Daughter of Judge Sharaf and I One Morning
1:328-329 Stay Near This Door
1:331-332 Why Say Autumn
1:337-338 Great Changes in Me I Cannot Describe
1:347 The Sun Is a Moth
1:352 Spirit-Rationality
1:354-355 Being Taken
1:359-360 Cut Cords
1:361 The Spring of My Soul
1:367 Don't Go to Others
1:368-369 The Chain of Evidence
1:369 Self-Help
1:372-373 Individual Bargains
1:374 Money-Fragrance
1:377-379 Islam and Money
1:379-380 The Return Message
1:381-382 White-Hot, Red-Orange, Ash
1:382-383 Armspread, Wingspan
1:383-384 The Young Woman on the Steps
1:393-394 No Further Delight
1:394-395 Our Animal Energies and Our Beauty
1:396-397 The Sophists and Abu Hanifa
1:401-403 Eating a Piece of Bread
1:404 Profusion
1:408 Own Your Faults Openly
1:413-414 To Make Abstinence Impossible
1:41-420 Lust Alone Does Not Create
1:421 Doing Laundry
1:424-425 The Six Tiers Above
1:426 Doctrinal Arguing
1:428-429 How Will He Hear
Book Two
2:12 Sama
2:13-14 The Two Trees
2:16-17 The Khotan Ceremony
2:18-19 Sleeping in the Mosque
2:21-22 Feeling Rained on with Blessings
2:22-23 The Beans of Conversation
2:23-24 The Pivot
2:24 Two Ways of Working
2:26-27 Pleasure We Can Never Have Enough Of
2:29 A Turning Ball of Silk
2:30-31 Inside Your Work
2:31-32 Mint
2:34 Drops of Muddy Water on My Eyelashes
2:35-36 Grace and the Curve of a Hip
2:38 Grafting the Red Rose to the White Poplar
2:44 A Preliminary Mourner
2:52 Honesty
2:55-56 Losing Grace
2:58 Pairs
2:60-61 Fanaticisms
2:62 My Mother's Temper
2:672 A Beautifully Planted Park
2:74-75 Fumes
2:78-79 Various Fears
2:81 Where's the Rest
2:87-88 More Power
2:89-90 Free Choice and Fatalism
2:92-94 Vital Companions
2:95 A Boat Named Quandary
2:95b-96 Aliveness
2:99-100 Someday
2:100-101 A Blur
2:107 Be Easier with Your Plans
2:109 Tending Children
2:111,113 Decisionmaking Exercises
2:14 Some Unfixable Truth
2:115-116 Digestion
2:117 Lovemaking
2:123-124 Seed and Country People
2:130 What to Begin Next
2:131-133 Troop Movements in Old Battles
2:135 The Unique Quality of Your Desire
2:138-139 Stuck in a Nowhere Town
2:139-140 Nakedness
2:141-142 Bukhara for Confections
2:143 The Great Crocodile
2:143-144 Cure for a Bad Stomachache
2:144 My Mother's Sadness
2:145a Tufts
2:145b A Little Crushed Birdlime
2:146 Any More Than a Duck
2:154-155 Baghdad and Your Body
2:156a Rigid and Ethereal
2:156b One Nightwatch
2:157 How Alive Do You Want to Be
2:159 Miracle Notes
2:164 Two Dreams
2:164-165 Owning Is Inhuman
2:167 Connecting Sentience
2:174-175 Orbits of Attention
2:176 Changing Schools
2:179 Planets and Plants
2:181-182 Spring 1210
Commentary
About the Authors
Books by Coleman Barks
Copyright
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