My Dear Friends, I cannot express to anyone how difficult and easy ‘the path’ has been or is. When someone asks me what is it like to be a dervish, I say it’s like being passionately in love: full of arguments and yelling, bewilderment and single pointed attention, amazing moments experienced by both parties involved. On a side…
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Hafiz understands the Suffering of your Heart
Your attachments! My dear, Let’s not speak of those, For Hafiz understands the sufferings Of your heart. Hafiz knows The torments and agonies That every mind on the way to Annihilation in the Sun Must endure. So at night in my prayers I often stop And ask a thousand angels to join in And Applaud,…
Some words from Yogananda’s Whisper from Eternity For National Prayer Day
Friends I love that story from the Rumi, about the man praying out loud calling to God. A cynic asks him if he has ever heard a response and this give him pause. His lips are no longer sweet with praise. He goes home and has a troubled sleep. In a dream, he is asked why…
The Dervish Retreat Upstate NY
In Sufism there is no monasticism that is clear. We are put into the world of duality because we need as Rumi says light and dark both, we need to feel the impermanence of things to stumble into the waiting arms of the One Changless. In the Masnavi we read God created pain and sadness…
