Sept. 5 segment of the weekly series “The Habit of Heartfulness” by Fr. Thomas Keating. Go to www.contemplativeoutreach.org for this week’s segment and resources on all segments to date. From Contemplative Outreach, a global community practicing Centering Prayer. As we move into our inmost being, … we are given openness of heart and a refined…
Daily Archives: September 7, 2011
A Note from The Prayer of the Heart Facebook Page
The perfect mystic, to quote the Blessed John Ruysbroeck, “dwells in God, and yet he goes out towards created things in the spirit of love towards all things.” It is this manifestation of the hidden link of love between the Beloved and His creation that fully transforms the lover. The energy of the Beloved flows…
Who is a Sufi by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
The sufi is a lover of God, and like any other lover, he proves his love by constant remembrance of his Beloved. This constant attention to God has two effects: One outward and the other inward. The inward effect is that the sufi’s remembrance distances him from the domain of ‘I and you’ and joins…
What was more pleasing in the world……..
What was more pleasing in the world than when The lover went with lover, the friend with friend.The rest was only grief, while that was all joy.The rest was only talk while that was all deed. Abû Sa‘îd ibn Abî-l-Khayr
Some words by Shah Nimatullah – We are of the sea, and the sea is our essence
We are of the sea, and the sea is our essence why then is there this duality between us? The world is an imaginary line before the sight read well that line, for it was inscribed by us. Whatsoever we possess in both the worlds in reality, my friend, belongs to God. His love I…
THE OBJECT OF THE INNER LIFE by Hazrat Inayat Khan
IS it power which is the object of the spiritual person, or is it inspiration after which he seeks? It is in fact neither of these things which he pursues, but all such things as power and inspiration follow him as he proceeds on his path towards the spiritual goal. The goal of the spiritual…
