We’re going to do something different today. I’m going to read a song by bawa Muhaiyaddeen from his new book called “Life is a Dream.” It’s called “I Had a Dream,” and it was written in 1946. I had a dream I had a dream about casting off my cares Closing my eyes And sleeping [...]
There are a lot of phases in life. We start out as absolutely dependent infants, and we move on. Some of us change phases as we move on. Some of us get stuck in phases as we go along. It’s been said that you can’t really begin to study and/or understand mysticism until you’re about [...]
There are many different modes that we need to be able to be in in order to traverse this path. We need to be empathetic towards others. We need to be able to feel others. We need to be able to feel within us what other people feel. We need to feel the pain of [...]
Someone was sitting with bawa, and they asked him, “Will there ever come the time when I will be able to see through my eyes what I see when I’m looking at your eyes?” And Bawa responded, “When the day comes when the “I” in you becomes a “we,” you’ll be able to do that.” [...]
Different religions and different sects and different teachers approach things in different ways. Some teachers teach a religion of exclusivity. They say that in order for you to be among those who are with God, you must do things not only in a certain way, but you must belong to this sect. You must belong [...]
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