So what is the best reason to pray? Have you ever thought about it? I would like to suggest that the best reason to pray is because you’ve been told to do it. “Oh no!!!!” (I can just hear our modern narcissistic minds freaking out over that.) “You can’t tell me what to do!” Right? …
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Newsletter: The Unity of Ideals and Lilacs
The Unity of Ideals and LilacsPublished: Sat, 06/03/23 This week we are exploring all the ways that we are not separate… which is all ways. Every single thing is not separate from the hugeness of everything. As human beings we have the ability to see that vision and to lose it. When it’s lost, bringing …
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Sufi Ideals Can Help and Hinder
Sufi ideals can help us and they can hinder. There are many beautiful Sufi practices blooming in in our Western world right now: practices of harmony and beauty, Dances of Universal Peace, breath practices, practices with Wazifas. Many of these things are very beautiful and they can help bring us in to harmony. When we’re …
Dance: Veni Spiritus Maranatha
Meaning and Explanation. Our words are Veni Spiritus Maranatha. This is a combination of Latin and Aramaic. Veni Spiritus means “come spirit.” Maranatha is an Aramiac word that is sometimes translated as “Come Lord Jesus. More correctly in Aramaic it is “The Lord Has Come.” Aramiac was the language that Jesus spoke. Greek was the …
Point Towards Beauty
Our consciousness is as easily captured by beauty as it is by disaster and despair. We can point ourselves towards it. Next — Thoughts are not separate from unity
Thoughts are not separate from unity
If we know that nothing can be separate from unity, and thoughts definitely happen, then thoughts are not separate from unity. You might believe that thoughts are bad. Thoughts aren’t me, thoughts are illusion, thoughts are this, and thoughts are that. But we know from experience that thoughts definitely happen. Right? Something is happening there. …
Lilacs only grow from the cold
Lilacs can only grow where it gets cold in the winter. They’re a good lesson that out of struggle can come beauty. Next — Nothing exists separate from unity
Nothing exists separate from unity
Nothing exists separate from Unity. The obviousness of that statement is mind-blowing… if you stop and look at it just for a second. Unity means everything all together. So everything is there together. Nothing can be separate from that because everything is already in it. Nothing exists separate from Unity. Another way I’ve heard that …