The Bird You Are Looking For - Seven Valleys Of Sufi Transformation
What Persian Ancient Journey Can Teach Us About Love, Loss, Desire, and Finding Your Way Home.By Maria Sorush
Length1h 31m
About this audiobook
You already know what you're looking for.
You built the life you were told would be enough: the career, the love, the home you're proud of. And still, on certain evenings, in the gap between finishing one thing and starting the next, something in you goes quiet and asks a question you don't have a polite way to answer.
Eight hundred years ago, a Persian poet wrote about a flock of birds who set out across seven valleys to find a king they had never seen, and lost almost everyone along the way to find out he had been them all along.
This is a book about the distance between the life you have and the one you are still, quietly, refusing to stop wanting.
You've been sitting in that tree so long you've started calling it a nest.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion, Philosophy
Length1 hr 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
10The Valley of Unity
2Chapter One: The Life You Already Chose
11The Valley of Bewilderment
3Chapter Two: What the Birds Already Knew
12Interlude: Who Was Left
4PART II: THE SEVEN VALLEYS
13Interlude: The Desert Between
5Interlude: The Ones Who Turned Back
14The Court
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6The Valley of Quest
15The Mirror
7The Valley of Love
16A Note on Writing This
8The Valley of Knowledge
17EPILOGUE
9The Valley of Detachment
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