Posts Tagged ‘ Human ’

The Unfinished Painting Mark Nepo from Parabola Magazine

October 26, 2011
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The Unfinished Painting Mark Nepo from Parabola Magazine

Dreams and art are the smoke signals connecting the one tribe over time. Stories and myths do the same. Often we are so greatly taxed by circumstance that we lose the larger view of time and how we are always related, not only to those around us but to those who came before us and…

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How we, myself included, like to fool ourselves (1)

September 23, 2011
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There is a person I talk to once in a big while. I tend to avoid talking to them because they make my blood boil. No matter what the conversation starts with it ends up in my smiling and nodding outwardly, and cursing inwardly just trying to end the conversation. This is definitely not sincerity…

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Love by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh

September 22, 2011
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Love by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh

All human beings during their lives experience love and friendship to some extent. Human love can be classified into three basic categories according to its intensity, quality and limitations. The first form of love is friendship based on social conventions where two people behave in accordance with the principle: “I for myself, you for yourself;…

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The Privilege of Being Human Being Human: Man the Purpose of Creation by Hazrat Inayat Khan

September 16, 2011
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The Privilege of Being Human Being Human: Man the Purpose of Creation by Hazrat Inayat Khan

IN EVERY SCRIPTURE it is mentioned that man is the ideal of creation. In the Quran it is said, ‘We have made man the Caliph of the whole creation’, in other words, the master of creation. The deeper we study life the clearer we see that life, under all its aspects, under all its names…

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Spiritual Learning & Social Change by Dr Stewart Bitkoff

September 13, 2011
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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.  Kahlil Gibran Looking Back As I sit around watching my grey hairs turn whiter, also I keep watching the same social and political problems occurring worldwide that I saw back…

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LIFE IS A JOURNEY. Seyyed Hossein Nasr

September 8, 2011
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LIFE IS A JOURNEY. Seyyed Hossein Nasr

According to Sufi metaphysics, and in fact other metaphysical traditions in general, all that exists comes from that Reality which is at once Beyond-Being and Being, and ultimately all things return to that Source. In the language of Islamic thought, including both philosophy and Sufism, the first part of this journey of all beings from the Source is called the…

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