Track Listing

1. Valentine To Rumi
2. My Burning Heart
3. Bittersweet - Chopra, Deepak & Madonna
4. Intoxicated By Love
5. Lover's Passion
6. Do You Love Me - Chopra, Deepak & Demi Moore
7. Come To Me
8. Desire
9. Alchemy Of Love
10. Caught In The Fire Of Love - Chopra, Deepak & Martin Sheen
11. Awakening
12. I Am Yours - Chopra, Deepak & Robert John Burke
13. Behind The Scenes - Chopra, Deepak & Blythe Danner
14. Looking For Your Face - Chopra, Deepak & Jared Harris
15. Meaning Of Love - Chopra, Deepak & Goldie Hawn
16. Aroused Passion
17. Dying To Love - Chopra, Deepak & Robert A.F. Thurman
18. Privileged Lovers
19. Precious Love
20. Surrender
21. Defeated By Love - Chopra, Deepak & Sussan Deyhlm
22. Lost In The Wilderness
23. Mythical Lover - Chopra, Deepak & Gautama
24. I Am And I Am Not
25. Agony Of Lovers - Chopra, Deepak & Laura Day
26. Agony And Ecstasy Of Divine Discontent - Chopra, Deepak & Sonja Sohn
27. Mirror - Chopra, Deepak & Debra Winger
28. Look At Your Eyes - Chopra, Deepak & Noah Hutton/Debra Winger
29. Looking For Love - Chopra, Deepak & Rosa Parks
30. Some Kiss - Chopra, Deepak & Coleman Barks
31. My Beloved - Chopra, Deepak & Chris Barron
32. Hunt
33. Desire
34. Lover's Madness
35. Lover's Passion

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12205 in Music
• Released on: 2002-01-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

From Amazon.com
"The innocence of my life releases the God I love everywhere." These are the words of Rumi, 13th-century poet and founder of the Whirling Dervishes of Sufism, as spoken by the mature and melodious voice of Rosa Parks. Her voice, American history, those words, intense longing: Power. In celebration of the human spirit, The Gift of Love is a recitation of the love poems of Rumi by Dr. Chopra and celebrity friends, including Madonna, Goldie Hawn, and Robert A.F. Thurman. Sensual Middle Eastern-influenced music backs the reading and provides breaks between sections such as "Love Drunk" and "The Light of Love." The Gift of Love is sincere and potent stuff, unafraid of the deep physical, spiritual, and mental hunger that Rumi's words not only taste, but roll about the tongue and swallow whole. --Paige La Grone

CD Description
It wouldn't be remiss to ask: Is A GIFT OF LOVE a meditation on erotic longing, a glorious paean to the Almighty? The answer is: both. The CD, like Jelaleddin Rumi's poetry, manages to be different things to different people. Here bite-size samples of Sufi wisdom cover a range of ideas, from "Desire", to "A Lover's Madness", to "Supreme Lover".
Deepak Chopra's album features the voices of Madonna, Demi Moore, Martin Sheen, and other stars, providing the project with instant allure, while bringing in a little street cred via civilrights activist Rosa Parks and Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman. Chopra would have been wise to hand over his own readings to the other performers, but overall, the album makes a good introduction to these timeless 13th century verses, and the accompanying music is danceable in its own right.

Customer Reviews

" If music be the food of love... play on "
Having admired the works of both Rumi and Dr.Deepak Chopra for many years I was eager to
get my hands on this C.D. I could not begin to
imagine how the passion of Rumi could be captured
through the medium of music. From the moment of the very first note on this album to the very last
I was totally absorbed. This wonderfully magical and deeply moving work should be heard by everyone on a spiritual quest. There must be a temptation when considering an undertaking of this
magnitude to indulge and go way over the top, thankfully, this has not happened.
A glorious fusion of deeply hypnotic sound and
contemplative verse make this album not so much
a listening pleasure (though it surely is) as something that must be experienced. This is not
one of those "late night" C.D.'s that we all have in our collections, it must be heard and absorbed
into the conscience where, like all great works it will heal and nourish the soul. I cannot recommend this album highly enough, if you only
buy one more album in your lifetime, make it this one.

Beautiful, Just Beautiful
This is simply the most beautiful sound I ever heard. Give it to the one you love and you will both tanscend this earthly world and float in a sea of love. It is magical and evocative and everyone should hear it. Its pure escapism and yet it reminds us what is real. We should send it to the world leaders so they might realise that life is love, no more, no less.

A treat for the senses.
This work of the Persian mystic Rumi is one of the best musical /poetic works where Rumis poetry is set to the background of very sensuous music making the CD a treat both for music lovers and lovers of poetry.I cant recommend it highly enough.