Don’t Die Again – June 19, 2019
“I am a man who knows the ten thousand positions of Divine love.I can tell by the light in your eyes that you are still most familiar with the few earthly ones, but would not a good father instruct all his heirs toward that path that will someday deeply satisfy?This world is a treacherous place […]
The Gift – June 18, 2019
“Our union is like this: You feel cold so I reach for a blanket to cover our shivering feet. A hunger comes into your body so I run to my garden and start digging potatoes. You ask for a few words of comfort and guidance, I quickly kneel at your side offering you this whole […]
It Felt Love – June 17, 2019
Shams-ud-din Muhammed Hafiz was a 14th century Persian Sufi master, prophet, mystic, and enlightened teacher who wrote love songs of God, stretching us to the edges of our understanding and beyond, bringing the treasures born of falling in love with the Divine. The keepers of orthodoxy hated him, causing him and his followers to often […]
It Felt Love – Feb. 22, 2019
HowDid the roseEver open its heart And give to this worldAll itsBeauty? It felt the encouragement of lightAgainst itsBeing, Otherwise,We all remain Too Frightened. -Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky in The Gift
