Kindness, Love & Compassion 💗

Love is not a straight line. Every relationship is a cross: one axis stretched horizontal with desire, the other pulled vertical with meaning. The intersection is where life actually happens, messy, fragile, human. Take one line away, and the whole structure tilts.

What is Sufism? It is the love of Majnun for Layla. It is “numberless waves, lapping and momentarily reflecting the sun—all from the same sea,” according to the Sufi master Halki. It is the practice of “adopting every higher quality and leaving every lower quality,” in the words of the Patriarch of Sufism, Ibn Junayd (d. 910). The Sufi is “not... See more

Like most mystics, Sufis strive to eliminate the dichotomy between subject and object in their worship. The goal is to create an inseparable union between the individual and the Divine. In Sufism, this union is most often expressed through the most vivid, most explicit sexual imagery. Thus Hafiz wrote of God, “The scent of Your hair fulfills my

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According to the Sufis, God’s very essence—God’s substance—is love. Love is the agent of creation. Sufism does not allow for the concept of creation ex nihilo because, before there was anything, there was love: that is, God loving God’s self in a primordial state of unity. It was only when God desired to express this love to an “other” that

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