I was sent this by a fellow dervish and thought to share, it is from the book: DOORKEEPER OF THE HEART: VERSIONS OF RABI’A “I set up house for You in my heart As a Friend that I could talk with. Gave my body to someone else Who wanted to embrace it. This body, all…
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Sitting With Fatima 7 – Forty Days: The Diary of a Traditional Solitary Sufi retreat by Michaela Ozelsel
Sitting With Fatima 7 One might think that being locked in a small room in a small apartment in Turkey with some water and a few apples and dates would be rather boring and uneventful. Michaela’s experience was not at all boring and was filled with “interesting” events to distract her from her prayers…
Learning & Classrooms by Dr. Stewart Bitkoff
Q: The world is the classroom. What does this saying mean? The path exists to make better travelers who are more able to participate in the world. The point of spiritual studies is to add capacity and integrate other aspects of consciousness. This is done to raise the quality of every day interaction between people.…
Abundance and seeing the truth of things….
Abundance is seeking the beggars andthe poor just as beauty seeks a mirror. Beggars, then are mirrors of God’s abundance, and they that are with God are united with Absolute Abundance Rumi, Masnavi I, 2745-2750 The Porter runs to the heave load and takes it from others knowing burdens are the foundations of…
When someone’s self esteem is linked to his/her ‘spiritual search’ – by Idries Shah
When someone’s self esteem is linked to his/her ‘spiritual search’, he can achieve very little until he has seen that this is a wrong connection. Generally of course, people are unaware that they pride themselves on being serious “Travellers on the Way’ or whatever they call it. They more often imagine that they are humble:…
Baba Taher – The 11th Century Mystic and Poet
Baba Taher is known as one of the most revered and respectable early poets in Iranian literature. Most of his life is clouded in mystery. He probably lived in Hamadan, the capital city of the Hamedan Province in Iran. He was known by the name of Baba Taher-e Oryan (The Naked), which suggests that he…
