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    <![CDATA[Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West]]>
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    <![CDATA[In this transcendent collection, Daniel Ladinsky-best known for his gifted and best-selling translations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz-brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world's finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West. Once again Ladinsky reveals his talent for creating inspiring, profound, and playful versions of classic poems for a modern audience. Rumi's joyous, ecstatic love poems; St. Francis's loving observations of nature through the eyes of Catholicism; Kabir's wild, freeing humor that synthesizes Hindu, Muslim, and Christian beliefs; St. Teresa's sensual verse; and the mystical, healing words of Hafiz-these and other spiritual writers considered to be &quot;conduits of the divine&quot; make up this rich and luminous collection of &quot;love poems from God.&quot;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 &quot;from&quot;...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.]]></body>
    
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