• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Shambhala; Reprint edition (October 11, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590309391
• ISBN-13: 978-1590309391
• Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 0.4 x 6.7 inches

Love might not be what we think it is. We all seek the happiness that comes from loving and being loved, yet we often find ourselves dissatisfied in our relationships and unable to grasp the cause. Thich Nhat Hanh here shows the way to overcome our recurrent obstacles to love—by learning to be mindful, open, and present with ourselves and others. As he explains, “training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice deep looking directed toward the person you love. Because if you do not understand this person, you cannot love properly. Understanding is the essence of love.”

This quintessential guide to loving also introduces the four key aspects of love described in the Buddhist tradition—loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and freedom—and describes many simple and direct ways in which we can practice authentic love in our everyday lives.

• Paperback: 310 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books (July 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140449531
• ISBN-13: 978-0140449532
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.8 inches

Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul and brims with exuberant energy and passion. Rich in natural imagery from horses to fishes, flowers to birds and rivers to stars, the poems have an elemental force that has remained undiminished through the centuries. Their themes – tolerance, goodness, the experience of God, charity and awareness through love – still resonate with millions of readers around the world.

Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America′s bestselling poet Rumi′s finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks′ delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out.

′There are lovers content with longing.

I′m not one of them.′

Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love of all kinds – erotic, divine, friendship -and Coleman Barks collects here the best of those poems, ranging from the ′wholeness′ one experiences with a true lover, to the grief of a lover′s loss, and all the states in between: from the madness of sudden love to the shifting of a romance to deep friendship – these poems cover all ′the magnificent regions of the heart′.

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: HarperOne; Reprint edition (January 18, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060750502
• ISBN-13: 978-0060750503
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.6 x 8 inches

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: Blue Dome Press (October 16, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1935295144
• ISBN-13: 978-1935295143
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.8 x 8.9 inches

This book seeks to examine how Sufi thought might provide critical understanding of contemporary life and a pathway towards the recovery of a more meaningful existence. Rumi’s mystical teachings are of great value at a time of rampant materialism and indiscriminate consumerism, and have the potential to illuminate the precarious state of the world, as well as revitalise contemporary social critique, ecophilosophy and biosemiotics in what is increasingly being regarded as a post-secular age.