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Sufism

  • quiet transformation

    Silence is the best alchemy. — Rumi Related articles Ageless Wisdom (keithwaynebrown.com) Rabia, Rumi’s Inspiration: How will you ever find peace unless you yield to love (eternalstudentship.wordpress.com) If You Need Me, I’ll Be In Rumi’s Field (lucykaufman.wordpress.com) Let Me Be Mad,… Continue reading

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  • Elucidating

    To praise you in reality is to praise oneself, for he who praises the sun thereby praises his own eyes. Rumi Source: pinterestgreat.com via Jenny on Pinterest … [A] 13th-centuryPersian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Iranians,Turks, Afghans, Tajiks, and other Central Asian Muslims… Continue reading

  • nesh nesh nesh

    …As has always been said, clarity comes with the giving up of self. But what this means is that we cease to attribute selfhood to these echoes and mirror images. Otherwise we stand in a hall of mirrors, dancing hesitantly… Continue reading

  • A Wide World of Compassion

    I contemplate a great deal how the Great Sages & Ancestors all say so many of the same things. Comparative philosophy leads to an open embrace of all peoples. Compassion is a wide road, even if not the easiest one… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121110b

    All Encompassed,   none apart or alone.   Love is this first sigh.   Love is that last gasp.   Love is always already the only word. Continue reading

  • Jive Turkey « Not Australia

    I always regret not taking the opportunity to visit Istanbul in 2005 when I had the chance. Hopefully, I will get there sooner or later. Until then, I appreciate these wonderful travel logs at sites like Turkischland. JiveTurkey « Not… Continue reading

  • Be gentle « Joshi Daniel Photography | Images Of People

    Be gentle « Joshi Daniel Photography | Images Of People. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120804

    Fairness is but one facet of Justice…     Obsess on this alone & you forget such alternatives as Mercifulness without which Justice becomes certain tyranny. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120729

    Wander not in paranoid conspiracies for position nor trample others in phantasms of privilege. Sow universal misery; reap the whirlwind. Continue reading

  • “The works that I have in hand I will finish afterwards…”

    I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart. And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee… Continue reading

  • gospel music

    I am from a family that likes to sing. I started as a young boy in the mid-60’s singing along with my mom and aunts and my brother. Lots of religious music infuses my way of looking at the world.… Continue reading