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Where Has Oneness Been All This Time?

May 6, 2011
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Where Has Oneness Been All This Time?

The following paragraphs are excerpts from the 6th chapter of the Oneness Study Guide made available by the Global Oneness Project. You can download the chapter or the whole Study Guide here –> http://www.globalonenessproject.org/education Oneness and Spirituality The idea of oneness has been introduced over and over through a wide variety of scripture and practice,…

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Sitting With Fatima 7 – Forty Days: The Diary of a Traditional Solitary Sufi retreat by Michaela Ozelsel

April 29, 2011
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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…

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Dissatisfaction with Your Path by Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

April 27, 2011
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Dissatisfaction with Your Path by Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

Q:   I am dissatisfied with my path, how do I find another? In this matter, there are a number of considerations. Because you are dissatisfied with something it does not mean it is not of use; dissatisfaction is an emotional state which comes and goes.  Ask yourself what you dislike about your religious/spiritual presentation; usually,…

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Do you have both types of these friends – SHEIKH ABU-ISHAQ’S FRIENDS

April 19, 2011
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Do you have both types of these friends – SHEIKH ABU-ISHAQ’S FRIENDS

SHEIKH ABU-ISHAQ’S FRIENDS As to ‘spiritual attainments’, I am reminded of the words which Sheikh Abu-Ishaq of the Green Island, near Algeciras in Spain, spoke to Ibn Arabi and reported in his twelfth-century Durrat aJ-Fakhira: ‘I regard people as of two types. First there is the friend who has a good opinion of me and…

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A Poem from the Sufi Jami and some words

April 18, 2011
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A Poem from the Sufi Jami and some words

Jami is one of my favorite Sufis of antiquity. He is considered the last great Persian Sufi Poets who died in 1492.  On a side note I must say that  it is pretty interesting to think that while Christophe Columbus was in the same year prepareing to or already on route  to the New World…

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Sitting with Fatima (5) – Forty Days: The Diary of a Traditional Solitary Sufi Retreat

April 17, 2011
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Sitting with Fatima (5) – Forty Days: The Diary of a Traditional Solitary Sufi Retreat

During her days of confinement, Michaela experienced many different emotions. Many days she would find herself crying, either from happiness or from sorrow, or from both. Around the tenth day, Michaela suddenly found herself in love with the Prophet (pbuh). She had never completely understood the command in Islam to love the Prophet (pbuh). She…

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