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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
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense. —Rumi
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain o... See more
A quote from The Prophet
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
... See moreReza Aslan • No god but God (Updated Edition): The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
The Sufi master Pir Vilayat Khan teaches us: ∼ Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-
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