“… there is no such thing as a little falsehood: even a trifle of it turns truth into a lie…” “… even an incomplete truth is tantamount to a lie, for falsehood is not the opposite of truth but its absence.” “… Creation depends on Truth…Truth is so potent that it will prevail and flourish … Continue reading The “Writing On The Wall”: From Stone to Flesh and Back Again
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“After the Fall: The Long Road to Recovery”
Disclaimer Because in Sufism, and perhaps to a lesser extent other spiritual disciplines too, to speak openly of one’s deepest experiences in spiritual matters of the heart is not done (openly at least), it is necessarily for me to restate the reasons why I began, some 3 years or so ago now, to write precisely … Continue reading “After the Fall: The Long Road to Recovery”
“One Without a Second”
The Invocation of Inayat Khan: “Towards the One…” There is only ‘One.’ In Islam, the surah al-Ikhlas (112) says, “God is One without a second…” “…The Perfection of Love, Harmony, and Beauty…” Nothing on this earth or in this whole universe lasts for more than a moment, but in that moment, and the next, … Continue reading “One Without a Second”
‘Opening to Truth: The Sower and the Seed’
A little while ago I began to write some more on the subject of speaking up, speaking out, in defence of ‘Truth.’ Although Truth needs no defence for it can certainly protect itself from lies, liars, and obfuscators, human beings certainly are vulnerable to such ‘endarkenment.’ It therefore appeared to me, then, and more clearly … Continue reading ‘Opening to Truth: The Sower and the Seed’
‘Sufism: the Path of Self-Knowledge’
If the path of Sufism is the path of ‘Self-Knowledge,’ then this unfolding path is – at least potentially – a way of gaining such knowledge. My sense of this is that only in the everyday ‘acts of living’ a life dedicated to awakening to this knowledge can we come upon its/our capacity to constructively … Continue reading ‘Sufism: the Path of Self-Knowledge’
‘The True Story of the Ram, the Lamb, and the Kangaroo’
How does one begin to tell an archetypal ‘story’ that is actually factual in all its details, in so far as they are known? I have been sitting with this conundrum for some time now, feeling that I must do this story justice, yet I find that elements of it may still be unfolding that … Continue reading ‘The True Story of the Ram, the Lamb, and the Kangaroo’
“Amphora – Metaphore – Akasha”
“Amphora – Metaphor – Akasha” In so far as truth can be told, it is through the ‘akasha’ that is meant to carry it over from one realm, where it abides freely, to another, this realm, where it requires an appropriate ‘body’ to ‘house it’ as it were. Just as we (our body) are the … Continue reading “Amphora – Metaphore – Akasha”
Tracks in a Pathless Land 