Sublime

The Perfect Man is he for whom individuality is merely an external form, but whose inward reality conforms to the universe itself. He is “the copy of God,” in the words of al-Arabi’s greatest disciple, Abdul Karim al-Jili: he is the mirror in which the divine attributes are perfectly reflected; the medium through which God is made manifest. Althoug

Ba-Chérif était un livre ouvert. Il incarnait à lui seul toute l’histoire du Rif. Chaque ride sur son front contait une épopée. Après avoir tout connu, tout mérité, tout donné, il attendait son heure dans la sérénité, avec la satisfaction du devoir accompli. S’il ne parlait pas souvent, s’il ne bougeait presque pas, c’était pour se persuader qu’il

As the fall of 1502 approached, Borgia moved his court to the highly fortified town of Imola, thirty miles inland from Cesena on the road to Bologna. Leonardo made drawings of the fortress compound, noting that its moat was forty feet deep and its walls fifteen feet thick. In front of the only entrance through the walls surrounding the town was a m

From this uncompromising start, Bodhidharma then went on to increase the aura of mystery that surrounded him by spending the next nine years meditating in front of a wall in a cave.

Here, as a result of these concepts, is a prayer life grounded in faith, witness, attention, and serious study.

Theophan is but one of a host of saints and sages who attest that thinking about God is a problem if you want to commune with God. In fact, because our attention is so completely riveted to what’s playing on the big screen of our thinking mind, we can live completely unaware of the deeper ground of the heart that already communes with God, that kno