This piercing reflection dives straight into the core of spiritual psychology to explore how our traditional definitions of the divine are often clever reflections of ourselves. By asking what happens when we…
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Simple thinking
Overanalysing every detail often creates complex obstacles where simple clarity should prevail. The mind’s tendency to build elaborate mental theories can easily obscure the most straightforward paths in life. Simple Thinking reminds…
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Saving from peril
True compassion often demands swift, courageous action long before there is time for debate or hesitation. When a life hangs in the balance, genuine selflessness sets aside personal safety and worldly logic…
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Spirituality — Awakening beyond ego and rituals
Beyond rigid dogma and external rituals lies the core of genuine inner transformation. Living spiritually means awakening from the confines of the ego to experience a profound, quiet unity with existence. Spirituality…
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The Sufi teacher and the art of unlearning
The search for a true spiritual guide often reveals more about a seeker’s ego than it does about their readiness for enlightenment. This classic Eastern parable recounts a profound dialogue between a…
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The bad coin
Only a heart that understands human frailty can meet the world’s dishonesty with quiet magnanimity. When we absorb small slights without harbouring resentment, we cultivate an inner spaciousness that remains untouched by…
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Greater love
This story points to the idea that in approaching the Divine, the burning sincerity of the heart matters more than polished language or correct ritual form. Religious knowledge and authority, if not…
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Life belongs to those who can play
What if the greatest treasure in your life has been sitting right in front of you all along—but you’ve simply forgotten how to use it? This beautiful Sufi story reminds us that…
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One life, many masters
One of the great Sufi Masters, Junnaid, was dying. His chief disciple came close to him and asked softly, ″Master, you are leaving us. One question has always been in our minds. …
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We are already God
Rabiya (also Rabia) , a great Sufi mystic, was passing…. It was the street she used to pass every day on her way to the marketplace, because in the marketplace she would…
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A heap of skulls
This is a story about Bayazid, a Sufi mystic. Once, he was passing through a cemetery and he came upon a heap of skulls. Out of curiosity he took one skull. He…