Second evening of two sohbets on this month's theme: Prayer (dua) and zhikr are methodologies to manifest the divine names latent in our being.

Click for PDF file "Eighteen Beloved Names."

First evening of two sohbets on this month's theme: Prayer (dua) and zhikr are methodologies to manifest the divine names latent in our being.

Click for PDF file "Eighteen Beloved Names."

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"The Themes of 2015, A Retrospective" is a sohbet on the themes of the last year, some core principles of Sufi practice, and the possibilities of conscious community.

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Reflections on this month’s theme, ‘The beauty of the human being is as much and as great as their love.’

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Sohbet with Kabir Dede.

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Reflections on this month’s theme, ‘Be cleansed of shallow idolatries; affirm the Real. Ya Haqq.’

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What benefit can there possibly be in rushing through some moments to get to others? Every moment is the perfect gift of the divine, manifested for our benefit. Moments of difficulty and challenge are moments in which the soul has the potential to develop and awaken new qualities.

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Sohbet recording with reflections on the theme for April 2015, ‘The natural state of the human being is worship. The human being needs God as the garden needs spring’.

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Sohbet recording with reflections on the theme for November 2014, two lines from a Ghazel of Hafiz:

“Wash your hands of the cheap metals of existence like the mature,

so that you may find the philosopher’s Stone of love and become gold yourself.”

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Reflections on the theme for October: “The interpretation of a sacred text is true if it stirs you to hope, activity, and awe.”

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