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Previously published as The Value of Your Soul: Rumi Verse for Life's Annoying Moments, by S.A. Snyder. In the vein of chicken soup stories, this amusing slim volume features short tales from the American author's trials and tribulations of living at a spiritual retreat in Scotland. Excerpted from the author's memoir, the stories are couched in terms of ""life's annoyances"" and offer lessons for coping. Each short chapter focuses on a unique event taken from the author's life and is applied to a common experience that everyone can relate to. The author uses excerpts from the Sufi poet Rumi to tease wisdom from the lessons learned, presented with humility and humor. The chapters are delightfully illustrated. The Value of Your Soul is like lamb stew for the annoyed soul!

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It is rare to happen upon beautiful thoughts so beautifully expressed, but S.A. Snyder's book, The Value of Your Soul is just such a treasure. How fortunate that her journey can contribute so richly to our own. --Philip Gulley, Quaker pastor, writer, and author of Unlearning God: How Unbelieving Helped Me Believe, and numerous other works of nonfiction and fiction This is an exceedingly charming volume, as beautiful as it is important. Snyder intertwines an original, obliquely angled re-vision of passages from Rumi's poetry and prose with an intriguing memoir into a resplendent tapestry. Both the thirteenth-century mystic and the twenty-first-century searcher bridge the personal to the universal in compelling ways. --Ori Z. Soltes, professor of theology, philosophy, and art history at Georgetown University and author of Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Searching for Oneness There is no shortage of surprises in life and some of those are crude tests of our ability to adapt, have self-control, and surrender. Snyder's engaging style makes the book a pleasant read on the borderlines of our contemporary lives and Rumi's ecstatic orbit. --Ibrahim Anli, executive director of the Rumi Forum, Washington, D.C. The poetry of the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Rumi is some of the most beautiful ever written. Since its discovery by the West, it has transformed and moved countless individuals; Sarah Snyder is among them. In this wonderful book, she intricately weaves Rumi's poetry with her experience of living in Scotland at a spiritual retreat. A must read. --Zeki Saritopak, professor of Islamic studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and the Bediuzzaman Said Nursi Chair in Islamic studies at John Carroll University; author of Islam's Jesus

It is rare to happen upon beautiful thoughts so beautifully expressed, but S.A. Snyder's book, The Value of Your Soul is just such a treasure. How fortunate that her journey can contribute so richly to our own. --Philip Gulley, Quaker pastor, writer, and author of Unlearning God: How Unbelieving Helped Me Believe, and numerous other works of nonfiction and fiction This is an exceedingly charming volume, as beautiful as it is important. Snyder intertwines an original, obliquely angled re-vision of passages from Rumi's poetry and prose with an intriguing memoir into a resplendent tapestry. Both the thirteenth-century mystic and the twenty-first-century searcher bridge the personal to the universal in compelling ways. --Ori Z. Soltes, professor of theology, philosophy, and art history at Georgetown University and author of Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Searching for Oneness There is no shortage of surprises in life and some of those are crude tests of our ability to adapt, have self-control, and surrender. Snyder's engaging style makes the book a pleasant read on the borderlines of our contemporary lives and Rumi's ecstatic orbit. --Ibrahim Anli, executive director of the Rumi Forum, Washington, D.C. The poetry of the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Rumi is some of the most beautiful ever written. Since its discovery by the West, it has transformed and moved countless individuals; Sarah Snyder is among them. In this wonderful book, she intricately weaves Rumi's poetry with her experience of living in Scotland at a spiritual retreat. A must read. --Zeki Saritopak, professor of Islamic studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and the Bediüzzaman Said Nursi Chair in Islamic studies at John Carroll University; author of Islam's Jesus

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