Transformation through Decay

When  it rains, most birds head for shelter; the eagle  is the only bird that, in order to avoid the  rain, starts flying above the  clouds...


An  amazing tidbit about the Eagle's eyesight:   The eagle can probably identify a rabbit moving  almost a mile away. That means that an eagle  flying at an altitude of 1000 feet over open  country could spot prey over an area of almost 3  square miles from a fixed  position.


No  wonder God wants us to spread our wings and soar  with eagles.
 

The Knowing Heart

The Knowing Heart

September 21, 2010

Salaam and Greetings of Peace:

“The Sufis have been the educators of hearts for at least fourteen centuries. Their teaching and methods are based neither upon dogma nor conjecture, but upon a divine and objective foundation which is the primordial religion of humanity.
“Sufism does not offer salvation in the sense of a guarantee of heaven in the afterlife. Sufism offers a path to complete humanness, a state in which the spiritual and the human are unified, in which the world of spiritual qualities and material existence are seen as one.

“This education is empirical, practical, and integrated with daily life. At the same time it is attuned to the most transcendent Truth. This education is a unified whole, but it touches on so many areas of experience: individual psychology, relationships, marriage, family, community, livelihood, creativity, and worship.”



By M. Farschian



We are the mirror as well as the face in it.

We are drunk on this life of God.

We are both the pain and its cure.

We are the fresh, cool water

and the jar that pours.

-  Rumi (Quatrain 1652)

From The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation by Kabir Helminski