Monthly Archives: April 2010

The Yogi and the Sufi (1): An Excert from Sufi Teachings by Hazrat Inayat Khan

April 27, 2010
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The Yogi and the Sufi (1): An Excert from Sufi Teachings by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Sufis and Yogis can respect each other as the only difference between the Yogi and the Sufi is that the Yogi care more for spirituality and the Sufi more for humanity. The Yogi thinks that it is better to be God, the Sufi thinks that its better to be man because if one is only…

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Suleyman Dede and some thoughts about ‘Grief’ on the Sufi Way

April 27, 2010
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Suleyman Dede and some thoughts about  ‘Grief’ on the Sufi Way

There were many times that I would say to myself, “What am I doing here? Why do I go through this? Why don’t I just leave?” But then I heard deeply in my heart that God was talking to me and telling me to have faith and to trust in Him and stay. So I…

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“I Love the Dark Hours of My Being” by R.M. Rilke

April 27, 2010
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“I Love the Dark Hours of My Being” by R.M. Rilke

  I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.   Then the knowing comes: I can open to another life that’s wide and timeless.   So I am…

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Some Considerations on The Way (taken from Knowing how to Know)

April 17, 2010
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 Consideration The belief that one is a teacher or a seeker or anythign else does not make one into that things. people can  -  and do-  believe  anything and everything. Their beliefs are less important than their real state. The Inidividual is generally unaware of that inner state. It takes a teacher to assess it…

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The Day by Hafez, and some thoughts from dave-O – to my friend Vole

April 17, 2010
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The Day by Hafez, and some thoughts from dave-O – to my friend Vole

Saturday, April 17, 2010 I cannot describe how many days I have lived through this week.  Before such a statement would puzzle me, maybe confound me to the point of madness but now through the grace of some secret alchemy, I have built, from confounding statements like these both a robe to cover my aching…

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The Seeker After Truth. Spiritual Traveler: Unlearning & Conditioning by Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

April 16, 2010
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The Seeker After Truth. Spiritual Traveler: Unlearning & Conditioning by Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

                        Spiritual Traveler: Unlearning & Conditioning                                                 By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff He whose undertakings are free from anxious desire and fanciful thought, whose work is made pure in the fire of wisdom: he is called wise by those who see.                            Bhagavad-Gita, 4:19 __________________________________ Traveler:   It is said, that in order for the spiritual traveler…

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