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.
If you ever go to a sporting event that’s being televised and you walk around the stadium, you’ll note that there are many different cameras located in many different positions throughout the stadium so that they can get shots from different angles. And all of these views from different angles go back to a control […]
In 1941 the United States entered into World War II. In order to combat what was going on in Europe, America mobilized its industries to create weapons for the war. This took a huge effort. The mobilization worked and they were able to produce enough weapons that they could keep shipping them over there, and
There’s a story of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who went into a town and in the course of events, they threw stones at him. And the angels came and asked the Prophet what he wanted them to do in retribution for what had occurred. And he said, “Don’t do anything. Their
It has been said that the opposite of love is stubbornness. And within each of us, we have to consider what is it that stops us from entering into the state of love. Well, it’s that resistance to love and that ability we have within us, that inclination we sometimes have within us to stay
In the late sixties and early seventies, there was a consciousness movement in the United States. Consciousness became a major topic of discussion among young people. One of the famous phrases in that area started by a man whose name was Timothy Leary out of Harvard was, “Turn on, tune in, and drop out.” There
What is the natural state of man, and where should we set expectations for ourselves? And what should we expect of our fellow beings? What should the standards be that we have for ourselves? In religious services in various religious institutions there are those who minister the flock, and then there’s the flock. So you have
When Bawa came he taught us about a monastic life outside of the monastery. There was no monastery except for his home. We lived in the world, we married and had children, but he spoke to us and he petitioned us and he implored us to live as if we were within a monastic setting
The story of Jesus according to the Christian tradition was that he taught until he was 33 years old, and then he was sentenced to be crucified by the Romans. And they in fact made him carry his own cross and then crucified him. And he died on the cross. And in that death he
Psychologists talk about the influence of genetics and the influence of environment. And all of us live in some kind of an environment, and that environment has some kind of influence on us. When they say environment, they’re not talking about the temperature. They’re talking about the parent, the parental units and their influence on
When Rumi met Shams and Shams took all of Rumi’s books that he was carrying with him and threw them in the river, at that time Rumi was considered the penultimate scholar of his region. He knew more than anyone at that time or at least that was how the people viewed him. And he was
