Philip Dunn

Manuela M. Dunn

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The bestselling poet in America today, thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jalalu'ddin Rumi has inspired and enlightened thousands with his playful, passionate work celebrating the sacred in everyday life. Now the spiritual wealth of Rumi's stories and poetry in translation are accompanied by rare and wonderful art in the Sufi tradition. This fresh rendering brings new life to these incomparable parables, which have transcended time, place, culture, and religion to speak directly to the hearts and souls of contemporary readers. With a foreword by Huston Smith, these selections of the inimitable mystic's prose and poetry have been taken from all of the master's works. Each parable, such as The King and the Handmaiden, The Grocer and the Parrot, The Ugly Old Woman, and The Man Who Was Always Being Swindled, is related as Rumi might have presented it to his fascinated audiences, as he whirled in meditation and trance. But each story also has a spiritual message, a holy essence that applies across all faiths, uttered from the heart of Islam. Each of these messages is provided here in a modern rendering that keeps the flavor of this unique period of history, of culture, and of inspired, passionate beauty.

A Treasury of Wisdom from the Poet of the Soul

The Illustrated Rumi

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." C.S. Lewis once again enlightens us on the depth of God's love, and how we must do the same, love the unlovable just as God loves us. The truest expression of that love is forgiveness. It is upon the altar of grace that all of us may be redeemed, and in my experience the place where God is most likely to intervene in our lives. The stories in thi book are part of God's voluminous case files.

How God Intervenes for the Least of Us

Redemption

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)

Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

A collection of newly translated versions of the most popular poems and stories of the Sufi mystic includes spiritually evocative reproductions of great works of Islamic art from the fourteenth century to modern times.

Manuela Dunn-Mascetti

Collects works of art and literature designed to capture the American spirit, focusing on the power of love through works by Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Mary Austin.

Embracing the Passionate Heart

Lover

Sangeet Duchane

It's a sensible enough notion that our unconscious would contain valuable insights, given that all we experience is stored there. Yet the idea of accessing those insights can be an elusive one, and until now, the subject usually has been discussed in abstract terms. Dream Finder pioneers a more concrete, practical approach for using dream incubation to tap the wisdom of the unconscious and to be guided by it in waking life. Author Philip Dunn offers four distinct meditation techniques to try before sleep in preparation for dreaming. Instructions to follow during sleep include specific methods of entering a lucid dream, recognizing the dream state from within it, remaining in or returning to the lucid dream, performing tasks in and controlling the direction of the dream, neutralizing a nightmare, and waking from a dream. Dunn also provides techniques to use after waking to remember, record, and understand dreams, gives helpful guidelines for interpretation, and illuminates familiar dream themes. In addition to refreshingly straightforward, actionable instruction, Dream Finder provides thought-provoking reflections on the spiritual aspects of dreaming, as well as fascinating historical context for the techniques and theories presented. Dream Finder is a rare combination of useful, uplifting, and compelling reading.

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