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SUMMARY:The Moth to the Flame: The Life Story of Sufi Poet Jelaluddin Rumi 
  
DESCRIPTION:The Moth to the Flame: Rumi's Holy Longing\npresented by Connie
  Zweig\, Ph.D.\nFriday\, March 17th\, 2006\n8:00pm\n\nClick here to buy th
 e book at Amazon.com\n\n" From my first breath I have longed for Him. This
  longing has become my life. "\n~ Rumi\nIn this presentation Connie Zweig 
 will examine the life of the best-selling poet in America who was born in 
 Afghanistan eight hundred years ago. Collections of his poetry have sold m
 ore than one million copies in this country. Yet his life story has been t
 old only cursorily. Who was this man whose thirteenth-century verses and i
 mages are so universal that they resonate even now? What formed his poetic
  genius? How did love touch him and turn him inside out? How did the Musli
 m faith shape him\, and how did he transcend it?\nThis tale of a life full
 y lived is the tale of every life: Rumi's yearning for God is our yearning
 \, his anguish\, our anguish\, his victory\, our victory. His story is the
  mythic story of the human soul. This presentation will include a discussi
 on of those moments in his journey that are archetypal in our own lives: a
 cceptance of family lineage and duty\; disillusionment with the status quo
  and a longing for something more\; a reversal of values and priorities\; 
 a seemingly terrible loss\; and an inner realization or awakening. This jo
 urney from innocence to knowledge\, from knowledge to love\, and from love
  to illumination\, is the journey of saints and sages. It is also our own.
 \nConnie Zweig\, Ph.D.\,is a therapist in Los Angeles and a student of the
  mystical paths of Hinduism\, Buddhism\, and Sufism. She is co-author ofMe
 eting the ShadowandRomancing the Shadow\, and author ofThe Holy Longing: T
 he Hidden Power of Spiritual Yearning.The Moth to the Flame: The Life Stor
 y of Sufi Poet Jelaluddin Rumiis her first novel.\nLink to Connie Zweig's 
 website
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