The Little Book of Sufi Stories: Ancient Wisdom to Nourish the Heart
This is why teaching stories are so nourishing; they provide initiatory maps so even work which has hit a snag can be completed.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
At its best, Sufism is a framework for transformation that can help us to purify our perception and remove the distorting factors in ourselves. Only then can we experience, be aware of, and perceive the mercy, generosity, and beauty of reality.
Kabir Helminski • The Mysterion: Rumi and the Secret of Becoming Fully Human
Attar was a Sufi master who developed through his poetry and teachings the concept of “spiritual alchemy,” in which the soul was treated like a transmutable base metal that must be rid of impurities before it can be restored to its original, pristine—one could say golden—state. Like most Sufis, Attar considered all souls to be receptacles for God’s
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