Better People- Better World

The book of your life is filled with many blank pages. You are free to write on them whatever you choose. As you start reading, a word of caution. I have an ‘axe to grind’ and am going to offer  solutions and say things that you won’t like. Perhaps, this will get you so angry […]

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Spiritual Learning Outcomes

One of the many things the western spiritual seeker has to face is that within the context of our culture there is limited discussion and awareness concerning the outcome of spiritual learning.  Also western spiritual travelers may have romantic ideas about what they will look like after they have reached ‘spiritual completion,’ i.e., added a […]

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Becoming Your Own Wise One

There are as many ways to God as there are created souls. Muhammad *          *          * In our culture, who assumes the role of holy or wise one?  In more traditional cultures the holy, wise one is a central figure.  Often, they advise the king/queen, sit at the right hand of the chief, understand human […]

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Waiting Deep Within

An acorn fell from an oak tree and lay frightened on the meadow floor.  As he lay in this new environment, he remembered his past life, high on the branches. Many of his friends were still there and he longed for the hours of companionship, grand view of things and boasting about their future. As […]

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America, Freedom & Sufism

Q: What do you think would be the correct vision to meet the spiritual thirst of American people in terms of spiritual orientation and training? A:America is a special place; America offers the spiritual freedom, alive in each person’s heart to choose what is best for self and others. Here in this country each traveler […]

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New Golden Rule: Selfish Altruism

The Path is none other than service of the people. -Saadi Each day as I grow a little older, the more troubled I become, over the seeming inability to solve many of our pressing, social and economic problems. While human’s can be extraordinary problem solvers often events have to rise to a crisis level before […]

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Rare Fruit

This world is a shadow of the world to come. Just as we have work in this world, so, we will have work in the next.  When we pass over, do you think we will cease to exist because we stop breathing?  Let me tell you a story. Once there was a traveler who went […]

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When Will the Champions Arise?

People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn’t got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge.”  Idries Shah, 1975   When Will The Champions Arise? It is most interesting to note, that this prophecy […]

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Meeting Yourself at Journey’s End

Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: Does this path have a heart?  All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traveled long, long paths, but I am not anywhere.  […]

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Everyday Spirituality: Life as a Prayer

We are participating in an explosion of new age teaching, interest in eastern religion, and a general curiosity about the usefulness of everyday spiritual practice. When you turn on the television, it seems just about every talk show host is discussing how to maximize human potential and help viewers become a more advanced version of […]

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The Work

You will not be a mystic until you are like the earth- both the righteous and the sinner tread upon it- and until you are like the clouds- they shade all things- and until you are like the rain- it waters all things, whether it loves them or not. – Bayazid Bistami   For the […]

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