Sufism

Rumi: No Light Like Yours

Tuesday, April 17th, 2018

There is no light like yours … ~ Rumi

Read & reflect on this gem from Rumi, a Coleman Barks translation.

Munajat: Your Help, by Pir Elias Amidon

Wednesday, April 11th, 2018

You are the becoming and the here, the flowing and the still. ~ Pir Elias Amidon

Your Help is from Munajat a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon, originally inspired by the Munajat — ‘whispered prayers,” or “intimate conversations with God’ — of the 12th Century Persian Sufi, Abdullah Ansari.

Rumi: Song to My Soul

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018

Don’t be content with worldly promises
for I am the tabernacle of your contentment.  ~ Rumi

Hafiz: The One Who Loves

Friday, March 23rd, 2018

The one who loves can never die…  ~ Hafiz

Hafiz: The Voice of God, a Hundred Odes

Friday, March 23rd, 2018

Tender and sincere, Hafiz: The Voice of God, A Hundred Odes is a powerful collection of Hafiz’s first one hundred lyrical poems, or ghazals, that bring to fruition love, mysticism, and other early Sufi themes. With a keen sense of timing and verse, the translator is able to capture the lyrical, at times playful, quality […]

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »
FacebookTwitterShare