From The Alone with the Alone Page with some comments
I came across this passage from the Upanishads on The Alone with the Alone page adn I thought to add another germane quote. Enjoy Dave The world is the wheel [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2011
How we, myself included, like to fool ourselves (2) A Readers responce
Hello Friends, from time to time I like to share some thing with you all. Personal anecdotes from my life. Lessons from the path and other things. In part to [...]
Spirituality and Sexuality (2) taken from Forty Days: The Diary of a Traditional Solitary Sufi Retreatby Micahela Ozelsel
Even from the scientific point of view, various approaches to investigating the connection between spirituality and erotic experience are increasingly being explored. Arya points out that physiological conenctions with the [...]
Riding the Bull, A Nasruddin Story
Nasruddin had an ox with horns shaped like a bow. He had always wanted to sit between the horns and ride the ox but he was too afraid. One day [...]
A Reader Prays for me to burn in Hell
I have been fortunate in that I have not received too many negative comments on the blog. But today I received the following comment from someone called simply ‘no important’ [...]
Spirituality and Sexuality taken from Forty Days: The Diary of a Traditional Solitary Sufi Retreatby Micahela Ozelsel
Brief Thoughts Dr. Ozelsel’s book is truly tremendous not just for anyone interested in the sufi tradition. It touches on teh rich relationship between the seen and the unseen, between [...]
To those who lay claims to love by Muzaffer Ozak
Now to those who lay claim to love I address these questions: How often have you wiped away the tears of a lover weeping for love of God Have you [...]
When you are afraid of something ……
The Goblet of Love by Ibn Arabi
The goblet of love is the lover’s heart, not his reason or his sense perception. For the heart fluctuates from state to state, just as God—who is the Beloved—is each [...]
From the Unveiling of Love by Muzaffer Ozak: Affection make a person forget
Affection makes a person forget about hunger and thirst and keeps him on the road of love. All creatures have taken their alloted share of affection. Even animals when they [...]