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The Sufi use of Music By Hazrat Inayat Khan
It goes without saying that one of the ways of recognizing the beauty around us is listening to a stirring piece of music. Previously, I have posted the guitarist Gasbarroni playing “Recuredos de...
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“If” by Rudyard Kipling
“If” If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait...
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Rumi: The Root of the Root of Your Self
Don’t go away, come near. Don’t be faithless, be faithful. Find the antidote in the venom. Come to the root of the root of yourself. Molded of clay, yet kneaded from the substance of certainty, a guard...
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A Superb Eastern Musician:Erkan Ogur
Erkan Ogur, a composer, he has influenced many musicians with his compositions combining the sounds of Turkish folk music, classical music with the ancient traditional music. Erkan Oğur, or Erkan Ogur...
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Rumi Poem: A Thief In The Night
A THIEF IN THE NIGHT Suddenly (yet somehow unexpected) he arrived the guest… the heart trembling “Who’s there?” and soul responding “The Moon…” came into the house and we lunatics ran into the street...
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A Poem: Confused and Distraught
By Jalaluddin Rumi Again I am raging, I am in such a state by your soul that every bond you bind, I break, by your soul. I am like heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason,...
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Love says, “Be silent. I will beguile him with the soul.”
By Jalaluddin Rumi Reason says, “I will beguile him with the tongue;” Love says, “Be silent. I will beguile him with the soul.” The soul says to the heart, “Go, do not laugh at me and yourself. What is...
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Hafiz-I Know The Way You Can Get
I know the way you can get When you have not had a drink of Love: Your face hardens, Your sweet muscles cramp. Children become concerned About a strange look that appears in your eyes Which even...
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A Poem by Hafez
The Poetry Of Hafiz Hafiz, a Sufi poet, expressed in poetry love for the divine, and the intoxicating oneness of union with it. Hafiz, along with many Sufi masters, uses wine as the symbol for love....
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THE AWAKENING
By Jalaluddin Rumi THE AWAKENING In the early dawn of happiness you gave me three kisses so that I would wake up to this moment of love I tried to remember in my heart what I’d dreamt about during the...
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