Years ago there was a cartoon character who was in the newspapers whose name was Pogo and he was a little creature who lived in the swamps, he was a possum. One of the more important Pogo cartoons had Pogo saying the following, “We have met the enemy and it is us” and that is […]
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We are experiencing in the world right now an enormous amount of difficulty, an enormous amount of grief, an enormous amount of anger, an enormous amount of revenge, an enormous amount of self-righteousness, an enormous amount of conflict between people, between ideologies, between ways to approach things. In essence the world is bristling. Everybody is
Anyone who has been involved in acting, or whosever seen a play, or whosever seen a movie understands that individuals take on a persona when they act, a different persona than their own. There used to be an acting school in New York that taught something called “The Method”. “The Method” meant that you got
Over the last few years my wife and I have been doing a lot of traveling. The long-distance traveling on a regular basis started in around 1991 when we went on umrah to Mecca, and then we started going every year after that for about 10 years. Then we started traveling after 9/11 to other
There is amongst seekers a constant yearning to find sanctuary, to find sanctuary in our Lord, to find peace, to find peace in our Lord. And there are many methodologies which try to explain ways to obtain peace. There was once an Arab praying with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet
From the time that we are young we are always in a state of need. A child is totally dependent on its mother for its nutrition, its care and its well-being. A child is incapable of taking care of itself. As the child grows it continues to be in a state of need and one
On the spiritual path there is an integration of the self. Your inner dialogue becomes compatible with your outer action. Your outer action becomes a portrayal of your inner dialogue, and your inner dialogue becomes a portrayal of your external actions. Now, in this world, people sell meditations. They give you words to recite and
We all have heard the word “Alchemy” and we know about Alchemists, and they would change lead into gold. Now the big search about the ancient Alchemists was to find the agent that they could throw on the lead and make it turn into gold because they needed the medium that could accomplish that. Well
“He who is caught in the throes of desire is an ass and spends his life competing for the grass,” the Musnatin, Book II. So many incredibly profound things can be said in such a small amount of words. We are all out there competing for the grass, and we all have different reasons why
I’m going to do something I’ve rarely done. We’re going to start with a poem. It’s a story that I’m sure all of us know, and I did it in rhyming couplets. It’s called Moses: Moses on Mt. Sinai climbed, To gain the words God had divined, But in his mind a worry rose, Distraught
