The Big Red Book Hardcover | Pages: 512 pages

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0061905828 (ISBN13: 9780061905827)

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Considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, " The Big Red Book" is perhaps the greatest work of Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the bestselling poet in America.

Rumi was born in 1207 to a long line of Islamic theologians and lawyers on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire in what is now Afghanistan. In order to escape the invading Mongol armies of Genghis Khan, his family moved west to a town now found in Turkey, where he eventually became the leader of a school of whirling dervishes. It was a fateful day in 1244 when he met Shams Tabriz, a wild mystic with rare gifts and insight. The renowned scholar Rumi had found a soul mate and friend who would become his spiritual mentor and literary muse. "What I had thought of before as God," Rumi said, "I met today in a human being."

Out of their friendship, Rumi wrote thousands of lyric poems and short quatrains in honor of his friend Shams Tabriz. They are poems of divine epiphany, spiritual awakening, friendship, and love. For centuries, Rumi's collection of these verses has traditionally been bound in a red cover, hence the title of this inspired classic of spiritual literature.

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Title	:	The Big Red Book
Author	:	Rumi
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 512 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2010 by HarperCollins Publishers
Categories	:	Poetry. Spirituality. Philosophy. Religion

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Great work, the poems simply take you to the other dimension of life and looses you completely.Extract:"Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought.Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence."Simply marvelous! Rumi, you have made it again.

I just won this book. Thank you HarperOnePublishers and Goodreads First read giveway. I recieved this book a few months around April or May of this year. This was a nice book of poems that talk about love and friendship. I don't normally read poetry books but this book was a nice change for me. I could relate to these poems. It reminded me of love ones in my life and how lucky I am to have them in my life. Thanks again HarperOnePublishers.

The fact that I thought I would finish this in under a week is a testament to how little I know about reading poetry. These were quite beautiful; I could only read a few at a time....I kept wanting to think about them.

This treasure of wisdom and ancient truth is never far from my reach. A necessary addition to any home library.

Breathtakingly Beautiful !!! No amount of words can describe how beautiful this book is.The most beautiful thing I read in the book was "The Heart Acts As Translator" "I went inside my heart to see how it was.Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.Then I went to every city and small town,searching for someone who could speak wisdom,but everyone was complaining about love.That moaning gave me an idea.Go back inside and find the answer.But I found nothing.The heart acts as a

I can't stop thinking about these poems.....