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.
May the peace of God be with you, may His grace envelop you and embrace you, may His peace integrate into your being and may you know that peace. As with most things, the path begins with knowledge. Knowledge is the light that sets you on a path. And like a light that knowledge needs […]
In society if our behavior becomes inappropriate, things occur that put us outside of society. For instance, if you break the laws they put you in jail. You’re not allowed to be with the rest of society. On the spiritual path it’s also like this, only it’s not visible. And people don’t understand the separation.
This is a path for lovers. The question though often is how does one become a lover? And how do you know whether you are in that state, or you are in some other state? Well, self love is the love that most of us know. The ego centric self and it’s total involvement with
One of the five requisite duties of Islam is pilgrimage, the hajj. However, the other religions also have pilgrimage. And besides the hajj in Islam people also do smaller pilgrimages known as umrah, which is a pilgrimage to Mecca not during the month of hajj, but at other times during the year. For about ten
In German there is an expression, “man ist was er isst,” which means — it’s a pun — translated in English, “You are what you eat.” But in German, “ist, i-s-t,” means “are,” and “isst, i-s-s-t,” means “eat.” So you eat what you eat, you are what you are, you eat what you are, you
The word kalimah, as in the first kalimah, means affirmation of the faith. It’s very similar to the word shahādah, witnessing. And the first kalimah in Islam, the first affirmation is Lā ilāha illallāhu Muhammadur-Rasūlullāh. The typical Islamic translation is, there is no deity but God and Muhammad is the Prophet of God. I’m going
As we walk through the world we are constantly influenced by everything that we interact with. We bring outside influences into our being, consciously or unconsciously. We allow them to enter into our being and they have an effect on us. For instance, the mere act of opening a newspaper in the morning is allowing
There is a story that I like a lot, that I’ve probably told before, but I’m going to tell it now. It’s about group of boys who were working at a hazel nut farm. And they were gathering hazel nuts for the farmer and at the end of the day he paid them with a
Unless you could do addition and subtraction, it’s unlikely you’d be able to do multiplication. There’s a certain progression to things. And if we don’t understand that, we move forward not because of understanding things but because of ignorance and arrogance. Ignorance and arrogance combined take you to places where angels fear to tread. We
