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Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West
by Daniel Ladinsky

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  rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>the absolute best thing about this book is the variety. how each of these mystics can talk along the same lines about God. i love that this isn't the normal white/black view of God. they speak of God who comes to them in the night and cures their loneliness. who nestles them against His breast and loves them. they speak of a God that so many people don't get to experience. the title threw me for a bit...after reading the book, highlighting and filling the margins with my thoughts like mad, i sat and contemplated it and i'm a little concerned whether it should be Love Poems To God and not "from"...but i'm not sure. either way, this book is superb. the poets are real and they seek after a very real God. they romanticize Him without romanticizing Him. it makes me wish i were a priest/priestess. these poems feel almost like they should only be muttered in some dark monastery, words that should be offered like prayers. this book will change you. read it and see if it doesn't.
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the absolute best thing about this book is the variety. how each of these mystics can talk along the same lines about God. i love that this isn't the normal white/black view of God. they speak of God who comes to them in the night and cures their loneliness. who nestles them against His breast and loves them. they speak of a God that so many people don't get to experience. the title threw me for a bit...after reading the book, highlighting and filling the margins with my thoughts like mad, i sat and contemplated it and i'm a little concerned whether it should be Love Poems To God and not "from"...but i'm not sure. either way, this book is superb. the poets are real and they seek after a very real God. they romanticize Him without romanticizing Him. it makes me wish i were a priest/priestess. these poems feel almost like they should only be muttered in some dark monastery, words that should be offered like prayers. this book will change you. read it and see if it doesn't.

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message 1: by Dennis

10/09/2007 11:39AM

wow Anyonita....what a beautiful review for a marvelous book! One thing...Daniel did mean the title to be "Love Poems from God." He's saying that these poems were a love-gift from God to these 12 wonderful mystics...poets...saints. God's Love is always flowing to us...we just have to be open and ready to receive it and these people were