Category: Journal
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Morality shouldn’t be dictated by the State
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We’re coming into another political year, where voting decisions are causing high tension for many of us. One thing I continue to see play out this year, as four years ago, is the right-wing decision to play morality as a votable choice. The right takes a so-called “moral high ground”…
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Dream: Returning to Source
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I call this a dream, but it felt more like a vision. This dream was so clear, so vivid it stands as one of the few moments I’ve experienced something so lucid. I had gone to sleep, and found myself in this very spiritual landscape. In the visual I was…
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Being Vulnerable: Surrendering Peacefully to the One
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It’s time I bow my heart, and tell the readers something vulnerable. This is the story of my spiritual path, and most of this I’ve kept locked away until now. It’s a story of depression, the search for God, and the culmination of the path. My story starts when I…
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Interfaith: A Sufi Perspective
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Having a front row seat to the inner workings of evangelical church system, I came to a conclusion early on, that power and control were the basic aspects at work. In my search for Truth, I found that many spiritual groups outside of Christianity, also had the same power struggle.…
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Spiritual Levels of Learning
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In many religious paths, there are different levels of knowledge. Some people require the rod of literalism, but this is never the heart of the faith. Others dig deeper into the universal understanding. In completion, one finds the unity of heart-based understanding. These are the levels of understanding. Base Level:…
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The Inner Pilgrimage
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Let us go on a journey. While we both take the journey, it is a path unique to each of us and it starts by closing off the external in order to tune into the doorway within us. There is a door, a path, and it leads to the Source…
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Exploring the 9 of Staffs
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In the Sufi Tarot, I randomly pull a card and study it. Mentally I memorize it and then bring it to my internal mind where I hold a meeting with my Higher Self at a visualized round table. There I discuss problems of my day, or in this case, the…
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Al-Muqit: Sustain the Path
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Looking at my about section, one would realize that I’m on a path of shifting sand. The time has come for a change. Tonight I flipped open a book (The Sufi Book of Life) and found page 106. The Divine Name being Al-Muqit and the message: Embodying a Steady State,…