Hello Everyone I wanted to let you all know about Tuck Magazine. It is a dream come true, for many people most of all for my dear friend and fellow blogger from Canada Val. She is a Best of the Net and twice Pushcart nominated poet, novelist and satirist. She keeps a beautiful blog called…
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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 keep myself honest and also secondly to present some aspects of the path that is not talked about much. I think there is a lot…
How we, myself included, like to fool ourselves (1)
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…
You Must take these Poems as Mirrors by Hamadani
I have been reading lately; The Drunken Universe : An anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry by Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nasrollah Pourjavady. I thought the following piece would be nice to share. Dave _________________– You must take these poems as mirrors for you know that a mirror has not form or itself but rather reflects…
Whoever has spoken of the Love of the Friend Was never touched by sorrow.
Whoever has spoken of the Love of the Friend Was never touched by sorrow. Union and separation, infidelity and religion, To him were equal. The lover has nothing but Love: no thought of more, No sadness at less. Until you lose yourself on Love’s path, You will never be Love’s confidant. So drunkenly like Farhad,…
My religion is to live through Love – Rumi
My religion is to live through Love: a life created from my own small mind and self would be a disgrace. The blade of Love cuts away what covers the lover’s soul; Love’s sword severs sins. When the bodily grime is gone, a shining moon appears: Spirit’s moon in a wide-open sky. I’ve beat this…
