A piece of wisdom from
February 4, 2025 · Tuesday
The quote
“The way to do is to be.”
— Lao Tzu (via Le Guin) · The Tao
The concept
Sufism
The Persian path of the heart, where the lover finds the Beloved by losing the self.
Rumi is the bestselling poet in America. Hafiz is quoted at weddings and on coffee mugs. Yet almost no one in the West has practiced what they were writing about. Sufism, the mystical heart of Islam, with branches in Persia, Anatolia, Khora…
A practice for today
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Sufism. The Persian path of the heart, where the lover finds the Beloved by losing the self.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 9.26
पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति। तदहं भक्त्युपहृतमश्नामि प्रयतात्मनः॥
“Whoever offers me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water — that, the offering of the pure-hearted, I accept.”
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