The journey of each talk covers many topics and weaves a tapestry of interwoven ideas, concepts, and explanations to reflect on, and inspire us to become more. Each talk is approximately 30 minutes long.
In this world, if we look closely, we see a constant cycle, a cycle of destruction and rebirth. A cycle of growth and a cycle of decline. The rising up and the falling down, creation and destruction. We see opposites and in the midst of all this rising and falling and creating and destroying and […]
In the States, it’s against the law to drive while intoxicated. This all started, of course, once there were cars. But then, because there are lawyers, the question became “What’s intoxicated?” The prosecutor would say “Well, you were intoxicated.” The lawyer would say “Prove it!” So they developed scales for intoxication. They were able to
The state of being satisfied with what we have is necessary in order to have peace in this existence. The grasping for things in the world brings about certain anxiety. The overwhelming need to possess things that are beyond our reach brings about anxiety in the world. The need to be involved with or have
For each of us we imagine satisfaction occurring upon certain circumstances falling into place. In other words we imagine that we need certain things to happen for us to find peace in our lives. We imagine these things and then we make an effort to go after these things so that we can become satisfied,
We begin our creation as the union of a sperm and an egg — tiny little things. We go through a gestation period and then we are born into this world a small being. We are raised by our mothers and fathers and we are totally helpless at the beginning of our birth. Slowly we
If you have ever been around a holy community, a community that has a shaikh, a sufi dargah, or if you have had the opportunity to be a disciple of a shaikh, one of the things that you would have noticed and noticed almost immediately about yourself, is that one of the reasons that you
Books have been written for a long time, ever since we were able to start printing. Before that, people used to tell stories and there were people who were storytellers. They would make their way through the world by stopping from place to place and repeating tales that they had memorized and they could tell
In the last few days, Pope Francis came out in an interview saying that if the Catholic church and the people in the church only focused on abortion and homosexuality, pretty soon it would lead to the downfall of the Catholic church. Essentially he’s right. If a religion spends its time and its money and
When I was in grade school, which was quite awhile ago, you would begin the day with singing “My Country ’tis Of Thee” and then you would recite The Lord’s Prayer and then the day would begin. Part of The Lord’s Prayer is “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done…” So there is an implication
There’s a Christian spiritual from a while ago. One of the lines is Heaven, Heaven, Everybody talkin’ bout, Nobody goin’ there. Heaven. And it came to me, recently, that line. I thought it a little bit. And it’s actually profound because what it is saying is that we all know about heaven. We all want
