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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Call
The Wine and the Cup
You Are the Macrocosm
Our Soul Was Like the Universe
Return at Last
The Goal Is One
One Light, Different Windows
The Authentic Human Being
Rumi and the Ox
The Moon Is the Same Moon
You Yourself Become Illusion
The Elephant, the Candle, and the Eye of the Sea
Don’t Listen to the Trickster
A Quarrel about Grapes
Lift Now the Lid of the Jar of Heaven
The Three Pearls
The Thicker the Veil, the More Valuable the Jewel
Become the Sun Itself
The Real Pilgrimage Is Inward
The Thirsty Man, the Wall, and the Water
False Thinking
The Paradox
The Place of Honor
Busy Yourself with That Head
Taste with Discrimination
You Are Loved by Him
Leave the Vulture Behind
Such a Passion and Longing
The Heart’s the Only Real House of Safety
Keep Your Heart Awake
Measuring out the Sugar
Nearness Is of Many Kinds
Keep Moving, Keep Growing
Make Yourself Ready to Do All He Wants
On the Limits of Fatalism
Another Alchemy
On Repentance
More Than One Stage Has to Be Transcended
See to It That You Pray Constantly
The Soul and the Spirit of Prayer
The Pure Name
Your Longing for Me Was My Messenger to You
All through the Night God Is Calling Us
Moses and the Shepherd
True Consciousness
The Sublime Art of Gathering-in
Draw Strength from Reality through Form
Find a Home in the Heights
Be Worthy of My Gifts
The Man of God
Become a Fool
Resurrection
Part II: Be a Lover
A Life without Love Isn’t a Life
Not the Garden but the Gardener
See the Friend Directly
Love Is All That Exists
The Soul of Reality
The Root of the Entire Matter
Through Love
Only Love Can Explain Love
The Beloved Is Everything
Secret Ways
Astounding Comfort
Love, the Black Lion
Let Yourself Be Killed by Him
My Heart is “Light upon Light”
Lover and Love Are Only One
Rose Garden after Rose Garden
Love’s Intelligences
Look for Passion, Passion, Passion, Passion
Love Makes the Seas Boil Like a Pot
It Itself Becomes Sign
Joy Will Unveil Itself
Part III: Ordeal
Destruction Precedes Renewal
Enter the Furnace
The Mystery of Misery
Ordeals by Terror
The Work of Religion Is Astonishment
The Sign
Look for the Happiness of a Supreme Lover
Grief Is Worth More Than the Empire of This World
Prudence
Keep Your Dragon in the Snow
Give the Serpent a Kiss
For Love, Like for a Furnace
Offer Your Life to This Work
A Supreme Grace
Gaze in Wonder at the Infinite Rose Garden
The Housewife and the Chickpea
He Will Not Let You Die
Satan
You Have No Idea What You Are Asking For
Obstacles on the Path
One Small Hair
The Tattoo Artist, the Lion, and the Man of Qazwin
Peace after Long Exile
Never Turn Away from Me
Despair Is a Sin
Praise God and Be Patient
The Serpent
Now Die to Yourself
My Work’s to Risk My Head
Heaven Is Made of the Smoke of Hearts
Do Not Despair, My Soul!
The Desert Where Love Appears
Part IV: Union
Waters Constantly Flowing
Since You Are I, You Who Are Myself
The Rose Garden Has Flowered
O Most Glorified One! O Most Holy One!
She Was Always Referring to Him
Why Would I Not Be Honest?
The Highest Rank
Paradox on Paradox
What Is This Sacred Dance?
The Voluntary Slave
His Rarer Alchemy
Divine Pride
You Will Not Hear One from Me
God Wears Red
Go Further Always
The Direct View
My Burial Ground Will Invite You to Dance
Stage After Stage
Become a Sea
On the First Day of Every Year
Look for the District of Joy
United Tenderly
Reciprocal Loves
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