A piece of wisdom from
March 21, 2025 · Friday
The quote
“O God, if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not from me Thine eternal beauty.”
— Rabia al-Adawiyya · Sufism
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
Walk one slow block today and observe 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 2.56
दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः। वीतरागभयक्रोधः स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते॥
“He whose mind is undisturbed in sorrow, who craves no pleasure, and from whom attachment, fear, and anger have departed — he is called a sage of steady wisdom.”
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