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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
A literary reimagining of Attar's thirteenth-century masterpiece The Conference of the Birds, for readers searching for meaning, self-knowledge, and the courage to leave what no longer fits.
Thousands of birds set out to find a king they have never seen. Most turn back before the first threshold. The ones who continue cross seven valleys, from the fire of love to the collapse of certainty, and lose almost everything they thought they needed along the way.
Written as literary nonfiction rather than academic retelling, The Bird You Are Looking For moves between Attar's original stories and the author's own reckoning with them: what she has come to believe, what she still resists, and what took her years to understand. Neither self-help nor scholarship, it reads closer to a long, honest conversation between a modern woman and an eight-hundred-year-old poem she has never been able to put down.
For readers of literary nonfiction, contemplative memoir, and anyone who has ever suspected that what they are looking for might be closer than they think
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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