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The book organizes verses into titled sections such as tavern, bewilderment, emptiness and silence, spring renewal, separation, desire and restraint, sohbet (gatherings), love at sunrise, the quest beneath foundations, creative surrender, and union with the wind. Its structure highlights turning points in inner transformation, moving between imagery of wine, breath, listening, music, and the light of Shams of Tabriz.","The Essential Rumi  \nThe Essential Rumi 􀀭'\"'  \nTranslated by C OLEMAN BARKS  \nwith JOHN MOYNE  \nA . J. AR BERRY  \nREY N OLD NIC HOLSON  \nCASTLE BOOKS  \nfor the compassionate heart within the mind, the light within the body,  \nfor the sun, Shams of Tabrh, and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen  \nTHE ESSENTIAL RUM!. Copyright© 1995 by Coleman Barks. All rights reserved. Printed in the 􀁔lnited States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, N\\!w York, NY 10022.  \nThis edition published by arrangement and w.th permission of HarperSanFrancisco, a division of Harper Co:Iins Publishers, Inc.  \nThis edition copyright © 1997 by Castle Books.  \nPublished by CASTLE BOOKS A Division of Book Sales, Inc.  \n114 Northfield Avenue, Edison, New Jersey 08837  \nISBN 0-7858-0871-X  \nMANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  \n,..; Contents  \nOn Rumi xi  \nA Note on the Organization of This Book xv  \nr. The Tavern: Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home  \nON THE TAVERN I Who Says Words with My Mouth? 2  \nWe have a huge barrel of wine ... 2 A Community of the Spirit 3  \nThere's a strange frenzy in my head ...4 Drunks fear the police ... 4  \nA Children's Game 4 Gone, inner and outer .. . _i The wine we  \nreally drink . ..6 The Many Wines 6 Special Plates 7 Burnt  \nKabob 7 The New Rule 8 This that is tormented . . . 8  \n2.Bewilderment: I Have Five Things to Say  \noN BEw ILo ER MENT 9 I Have Five Things to Say 9 Acts of Helplessness II Saladin's Begging Bowl I2 Late, by myself . . .I2 Does sunset sometimes look . . .I3 Be Melting Snow I3 The Fragile Vial I4 Where Are We? I5 The Friend comes into my body . . .I6 There is a light seed grain ...I6 Do you think I know   I6  \n3.Emptiness and Silence: The Night Air  \noN sILENcE I7 The Reed Flute's Song I7 A Thirsty Fish I9 Enough Words? 20 This World Which Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness 2I Quietness 22 Sanai 22 A Just-Finishing Candle 23 Craftsmanship and Emptiness 24 Emptiness 26 When you are with everyone but me . . .28 No Flag 28 The Food Sack 29 The Night Air 30 Only Breath 32 There is a way between voice . . . 32  \n4· Spring Giddiness: Stand in the Wake of This Chattering and Grow Airy  \no N sPRING G I o o I NE ss 33 Spring 33 Where Everything Is Music 34 A Great Wagon 35 Today, like every other day . ..36 Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing . ..36 The breeze at dawn . . .36 I would love to kiss you ...37 Daylight, full of small dancing particles ...37 They i: ry to say what you are ...37 Come to the  \norchard in Spring . . . 3 7 Spring Is Christ 3 7 Shreds of Steam 38 The Steambath 39 The Ground Cries Out 39 Unfold Your Own Myth 40 Not a Day on Any Calendar 4r Flutes for Dancing 42 The Shape of My Tongue 42 The Grasses 43 The Sheikh Who Played with Children 44 Let the lover be disgraceful . . . 46  \nAll day and night, music . . . 46  \n5· Feeling Separation: Don't Come Near Me  \nON S EPA,RATION 47 Sometimes I Forget Completely 47  \nA Man and a Woman Arguing 47 A night full of talking that  \nhurts . . . 50 An Empty Garl. ic 50 The Diver's Clothes Lying Empty . . . 5 r Red Shirt 5 r My Worst Habit 52 Don't let your throat tighten . . . 52 Dissolver of Sugar 53 Pale sunlight . . . 53  \n6. Controlling the Desire-Body: How Did You Kill Your Rooster, Husam? 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