Like This: Rumi - 43 Odes

 Like This' -   Rumi :  43 Odes,
Paperback - 64 pages,
Versions by Coleman Barks.

 
The mysterious conversations (sohbet) that Mawlana Rumi had with Mawlana Shams, May Allah be pleased with them, opened Rumi into a deep friendship with existence, and non-existence, that became the spontaneous river of his poetry.


"Like This" contains 43 Odes from the "Divan." 

Here is an extract from one of the odes... 


-- Forget the world,
and so command the world.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.
Help someone's soul heal.
Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.  

Be a well baked loaf
and Lord of the table.  

Come and be served
to your brothers. ---