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The Bird You Are Looking For
The Seven Valleys of Sufi Transformation | What Persian Ancient Journey Can Teach Us About Love, Loss, Desire, and Finding Your Way HomeBy Maria Sorush
Length1h 35m
About this audiobook
What can an eight-hundred-year-old Persian poem teach us about the way we live today?
Written by Iranian author Mria Sorush, The Bird You Are Looking For is a modern journey through the spiritual wisdom of Attar’s The Conference of the Birds, one of the great masterpieces of Persian Sufi literature.
Attar’s legendary story follows thousands of birds who leave in search of the Simurgh, their mysterious king. To reach him, they must cross seven valleys—each one representing a different stage of the inner journey: love, longing, knowledge, detachment, unity, wonder, and the loss of the self.
But these valleys are not only ancient spiritual ideas. We cross them too.
Through each of the seven valleys, Sorush brings Attar’s stories into the world we live in now—our relationships, ambitions, fears, losses, choices, identities, and moments when the life we have built no longer feels like our own. The ancient journey becomes a surprisingly familiar map of modern life.
This is not an academic study of Attar, nor a traditional retelling. It is a simple, intimate introduction to Sufi wisdom for the modern reader—a way of asking what it might mean to live with greater awareness, courage, love, and inner freedom.
For anyone searching for meaning, self-knowledge, or a different way of moving through life, the seven valleys of the birds may be closer than they first appear.
The journey the birds took centuries ago may be the journey you are already on.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion, Literary Classics
Length1 hr 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION 4
2PART I: THE LONGING 8
3Chapter One: The Life You Already Chose 9
4Chapter Two: What the Birds Already Knew 12
5PART II: THE SEVEN VALLEYS 15
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6The Gathering 16
7Interlude: The Ones Who Turned Back 22
8The Valley of Quest 25
9The Valley of Love 29
10The Valley of Knowledge 36
11The Valley of Detachment 41
12The Valley of Unity 46
13The Valley of Bewilderment 53
14PART III: WHAT WAS LEFT 59
15The Valley of Poverty and Annihilation 60
16Interlude: Who Was Left 67
17Interlude: The Desert Between 72
18The Court 75
19The Mirror 80
20A Note on Writing This 84
21EPILOGUE 86
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