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Candle in the Wind
A wonderful day meeting new friends and sharing the “separation from the Beloved,” which invites this brief excursion into the heart of Rumi: There is a candle in your heart… There is a candle in your...
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Where We Are
Tagged: Beauty, Daylight, Fog, Friends, places, Poetry, Prayer, rain, Touch, William Stafford
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Ta’wil and the Ideas of Henry Corbin
“Ta’wil, the archetypal act of hermeneutics, that primary human activity overseen by Hermes who carries messages between the gods and mortals, is life lived at its highest pitch of intensity. It is the...
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The Layers
I heard a beautiful reading of this Stanley Kunitz’ poem by Michael Lerner over at Commonweal.org The Layers – Stanley Kunitz I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I...
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Say Yes Quickly
Below is one of my favorite poems by Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi. This one is a translation by the American poet, Coleman Barks.There is an interview with Coleman here, in which he speaks to the idea, near...
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Polyphony
“Songbirds sing. That is fact, not metaphor. They sing, and in the forest every morning, when a dozen or a hundred or a thousand individuals of six or ten or twenty different species sing at once, that...
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