The Cup of Humanity - Tetragrammaton

Drunk without wine, sated without food, a king beneath a humble cloak, a treasure within a ruin, Sufism is to Islam what the heart is to the human being: its vital center, the seat of its essence. It is, in Majnun’s words, “the pearl hidden in the shell, the face beneath the veil.” Sufism is the secret, subtle reality concealed at the very depths o

It’s astonishing. And now that we taste the “wine of astonishment,” referenced in the Psalms of King David, it’s clear that the one thing that prevented our knowing it earlier was us. Our self. We were the cork in the bottle. Once we are gone, the wine flows freely.