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Reflection on Life ... Spirituality ... and an effort to "Know Thy Self". A place where I gather treasures from experiences of great minds. An effort to capture brilliant sparks of soul.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'Spirituality'
A Commuter's Guide to Enlightenment | Stewart Bitkoff
During the days of your life,divine breeze will blow,so watch out for them.- Mohammed.'Spirituality' as labeled by the general mass, in the past used to be seeked through austere practices, in the cav...
Tent of Abraham
In the mystic wilderness there is a great tent raised, the tent of Abraham, the enlightened one - who symbolizes humanity's awakening to Oneness. Abraham is the archetypal father from whom flows the t...
Spiritual Crisis of Prophet Muhammad | The experiences of 'Dark Night of the Soul'
By the glorious morning light,and the still night when it covers with darkness.Your Lord has not forsaken you, nor has He become displeased, and verily the latter state is better for you than the form...
Moth and Flame | a Sufi Metaphor
1.a candle has been litinside me,for whichthe sunis a moth.- Bahauddin Valad2.In sufi literature one of the most loved metaphor is moth and flame. The moth's annihilation into the flame has been drawn...
Synchronicity | glimpse of a deeper order
1.NowThatAll your worryHas proved such anUnlucrativeBusiness,WhyNotFind a betterJob.- Hafiz, version by Daniel Ladinsky2.According to the Buddhist understanding of auspicious coincidence, all circumst...
Fantasy Spirituality | talk by Mir Hadian
"Many of us have a fantasy perception of spirituality rather than a real awareness of it. Sometimes this happens because a person wants to escape from the demands of the worldly life, or they may be t...
Rumi and Spiritual Healing
1."Rumi has always been a healer of the spirit"- Michael Green, author, artist and student of sufi master Bawa Muhaiyaddeen2.Shems Friedlander in his book, The Whirling Dervishes mention from Rumi's l...
Vision of Christ | Sharing of Sacred Experience
1.Happy news, O heart!..... The Jesus-breath has come!From his wholesome spirit..... wafts the fragrance of the One.................. - Hafez, the mystic and master sufi poet2.I had a vision just as I...
Shams of Tabriz | Spiritual Portrait
Shams of Tabriz: A Fire of Roses by Zedmedium: graphite1.The extra-ordinary spiritual portrait of Shams is by artist and darvish, Zed. During the birthing process of the painting, the artists heart wa...
Body as Mirror of the Soul
1.A sacrament is a visible sign of invisible grace. The body is a sacrament.All our inner life and intimacy of soul longs to find an outer mirror. It longs for a form in which it can be seen, felt and...
Gathered Memory | the spiritual wisdom of Hafez
So long as on Earth you live,do value your strength;the wheel of life buriesall weakness in the end.In the school of transformation, in the tavern of alchemy, each seeker has its own course, unique pa...
Reincarnation | Islamic Perspective | part.1
1. Reincarnation | Where traditional Islam stands?In the orthodox / traditional / mainstream Islam at its later version doesn't talk about reincarnation. The idea of reincarnation is not discussed in ...
Reincarnation / Rebirth | Signs
1.Reincarnation "Krishna taught it; Plato believed in it; the Buddha revised it; Augustine considered it; Emerson wrote about it; Freud rejected it; Tolstoy was passionate about it; Sagan was curious ...
understanding the war within
1.He who knows others is wise;He who knows himself is enlightened.He who conquers others has physical strength;He who conquers himselfis truly strong.- Taoism. Tao Te Ching 33Irrigators lead the wate...
What is Reverence? | flowering of holy perception to life
1.Reverence is the floweringof a surrendered heartand love its fragrance.Reverence, is a love affairwith existence,with life,with beauty,the all-pervading Mystery.Reverence is the presenceof awakened ...
idol of mental attachment
In meditation, everything depends on thought. If your thought becomes attached to any created thing - even some thing unseen or spiritual, higher than any earthly creature - it is as if you were bowin...
Oneness in our true human context | Thomas Merton
"Only when we see ourselves in our true human context, as members of a race which is intended to be one organism and "one body," will we begin to understand the positive importance not only of the suc...
Sacred Feminine | teachings and spiritual work
"The Woman is waiting to be recognized"In the Oneness and the Heart of the World event the subject matter of Sacred Feminine and the Feminine aspect of Divine was raised. Some audience also questioned...
The Content of Emptiness
What is this “emptiness” that some religious teachings indicate to be a desirable human state? Does it mean that one should empty himself or herself of every inner thought and perception, to redu...
Inner Light, Nur | what is it? who sees it and how?
One of my dear heart friend passed this question to me to ask sufi teacher(s) I know:what is Nur or Inner Light?who sees it, and how?I had the opportunity to ask this question to Hakima, a sufi teache...
The Great Pilgrimage | where the lovers meet
"... in this station he makes his final sajda at the door of the sacred mosque and from this sajda he does not lift up his head again because there is no head to lift up ..."In teaching the Great Pilg...
Wisdom from Hopi Elders | on sacred togetherness .. we are the ones we've been waiting for ..
You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour.And there are things to be considered:Where are you living? What are you ...
be easier with your plans | Bahauddin Valad
I was wondering what sort of learning I should take up next, and my consideration became tedious and exhausting. I turned to the verse: Say The enjoyment of this world is shortlived (Quran 4:77), whic...
Fana and Baqa (Baka) | spiritual death and resurrection
Sufi master Inayat Khan, may God connect us to his state of realization, in his writing explains beautifully the sufi idea of Fana and Baqa using the metaphor of Jesus Christ and the symbology of the ...
Art of Presence and being Present | Eckhart Tolle
who are you?i simply amwhere are you?herewhat time it is?nowto be aware of the present moment, to be mindful of now - is an ancient wisdom of humanity. every new born child is born with such awareness...
Another way of viewing life | allow to be viewed
... average human being believes that he or she is cause to something, and therefore everything starts with the ego center projecting itself outwards into the screen of life. As long as we live in tha...
Healing the Broken Heart | a new spiritual blog
Ask the people of the Remembrance if you know not.The Quran 21:7, 16:43Healing the Broken Heart is a new spiritual / sufi blog focusing on healing the inner heart and helping any seeker to walk toward...
The Spiritual Athlete in an Orange Robe | Kabir by Robert Bly
photograph by MysticLens | at a Hindu Temple, Singapore...The spiritual athlete often changesthe color of his clothes,but mine remains gray and loveless.he sits inside the shrine room all dayso that G...
Vision of wholeness and oneness | Irina Tweedie
THE REALIZATION that every act, every word, every thought of ours not only influences our environment but for some mysterious reason forms an integral and important part of the Universe, fits into it ...
How humanity can wakeup collectively? | Gurdjieff
Mystic George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, (b.1872, d.Oct.29, 1949) while traveling extensively in central asia, turkey, north africa such as egypt, middle east in search of sacred knowledge, met and received...