The Enlightened Heart
10 best books like The Enlightened Heart (Stephen Mitchell): I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology, Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania
| Author | Hafez |
| ISBN | 0143037811 |
To Persians , the poems of Hafiz are not "classical literature" from a remote past but cherished wisdom from a dear and intimate friend that continue to be quoted in daily life. With...
| Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| ISBN | 1573225851 |
| Author | Czesław Miłosz |
| ISBN | 0156005743 |
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060925760 |
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p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
| Author | Elizabeth Roberts |
| Author | Daniel Ladinsky |
| ISBN | 0142196126 |
In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky—best known for his gifted and bestselling interpretations of the great...
| Author | Kabir |
| ISBN | 0807063797 |
Not all that long ago, in another review, I wrote that I preferred the Rabindranath Tagore translation to this one. I take it back. I was a fool to say so. Revisiting Bly’s translation recently, after more than two decades, I was struck by its clarity, its passion, its vivid and compelling voice.
I...
| Author | Robert Bly |
| ISBN | 0060924209 |
| Author | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| ISBN | 0933377290 |
Kindness
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all...
| Author | Jerome Rothenberg |
| ISBN | 0520049128 |
| Author | Roger Housden |
| ISBN | 1400045630 |
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 0679742522 |
| Author | Hanshan |
| ISBN | 1556591403 |
This definitive translation of Han Shan’s poetry appears in a bilingual Chinese-English format. Included are extensive notes, a preface by renowned translator Red Pine, a findings list, and photographs of the cave and...
| Author | Red Pine |
| ISBN | 1556591950 |
Poetry is China’s greatest art, and for the past eight centuries Poems of the Masters has been that country’s most studied and memorized collection of verse. For the first time ever in English, here is the complete text, with an introduction and extensive...
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1888375167 |
and yet continuously flowing world.
And, complicated. . . don't forget complicated world.
These poems, written by Thich Nhat Hanh, are divided up into two sections in this collection: Historical Dimension (written primarily during the '60s, during...
| Author | Mahmud Shabistari |
| Author | Stephen Levine |
| ISBN | 0717131211 |
| Author | Rumi |
The Stormy Search for the Self
| Author | Christina Grof |
| Author | Yoel Hoffmann |
| ISBN | 0804831793 |
Although the consciousness of...
| Author | Gudo Wafu Nishijima |
| ISBN | 1419638203 |