In the end, Sufism is a point of view that is going to either reveal life to you or enhance your illusions about life. The illusions can feel very beautiful, and it is easy to use the concentration practices of Sufism to make your illusions more practical, more popular— all sorts of beautiful things, actually. …
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Who Are You?
So, who are you? How do you figure that out? How do you realize your nature, when your whole life you’ve been taught to project yourself outside of yourself? Fortunately, as human beings, we’re really, really smart, so we can work through it. First step is to understand what a projection is. One of the …
Programmed to live in pretense
We are programmed to live in pretense. I’d like to pass on a sentiment, not an exact quote, but an idea from John Trudell from his book ‘Lines from a Mind.’ He says that everyone’s minds are molded to be broken enough to live in the society that we have. He’s very interesting because all …
The Story of Healing
All of these different stories we’ve been telling work into the story of healing because healing is very much a process of stepping out of your own way. This is an easy way for us to misunderstand the idea of spiritual healing because we think you can put your hands on somebody and heal them. …
Have You Ever Experienced Unity
Have you ever experienced unity with other human beings? This is something that I just love working on because I love doing the Dances of Universal Peace. We get together in a big circle and we dance and sing together and move together. Human beings in a circle, we magically come into unity. You’ve probably …
If You See God
If you see God, then you know there is no God. If you see God, then you know that everything is God. That might sound a little confusing because it sounds like two different things, two different perceptions. But what matters is who is seeing. Once you know who is seeing, then you see that …
Each Time Humans Come Together
Each time humans come together, something really magical happens. And I mean, like, really come together. Human beings have this thing that we can do where we can actually communicate with each other, we can commune with each other, we can do things together. That’s why we’re so amazingly fabulously creative. We don’t even have …
Attaining Enlightenment Doesn’t Make Sense
So, attaining Enlightenment just doesn’t make any sense in the traditional way it’s taught to us. I’m talking about the idea of becoming enlightened, attaining some amazing state of bliss that’s above and beyond everybody else, stepping out of the wheel of life so you’re not incarnated anymore. All that. “Becoming” something doesn’t make any …
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