There is a difference between spiritual life and mystical life. In spiritual life you aspires to something you want to get close to God, you want to lead a good life, you want to make a connection to your spiritual Nature, you can evolve and develop higher states of Consciousness. A mystic wants nothing. We…
Umar Abul Azziz once wrote a letter to Hasan Basri in which he requested some brief advice that would serve to guide him. On the back of the envelope, Hasan wrote, “O Commander of the Faithful, if God is with you, then what do you fear, and if God isn’t with you, in what can…
Sufi Poetry is often sung. Here are some lines from Rumi below which are being sung and performed by Performed by Shahram Nazeri Artwork by Edmund Dulac Mevlana wrote: You are my health, you are my wealth, you are my wine, you are my corruption. The scar of your loss is with my heart for…
Make everything in you an ear, each atom of your being, and you will hear at every moment what the Source is whispering to you, just to you and for you, without any need for my words or anyone else’s. You are—we all are—the beloved of the Beloved, and in every moment, in every event…
Some words from Rumi Don’t for a moment think that you’ve found the goal of your love! Don’t stand still in the ranks.You have no place with uniforms at rest You might as well consent to be a corsage or a rose in some beautiful woman’s hair A road might end at a single house,…
I read this early this morning and felt I should post it: We say Love is God or God is Love, and we have to love each other and so on, but it is a mental concept, is it not so? Do we really know that God is love and love is God, do we…
