The Witness Within - Insights on Sufism by E. L. Levin

Empathy

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:05:03 +0000

We’re going to do something different today. I’m going to read a song by Bawa Muhaiyaddeen from his new book called “Life is a Dream.” It’s called “I Had a Dream,” and it was written in 1946. “I had a dream I had a dream about casting off my cares Closing my eyes And sleeping [...]

Caterpillars and Butterflies

admin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:36:26 +0000

The way we perceive things has a lot to do with the way we react to things. It’s necessary to have a larger understanding of our place in existence in order to have a broader understanding of existence. The frog who lives in the well has no conception of an ocean, and we can or [...]

Roadblocks to Love

admin — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:35:52 +0000

Those who have entered the journey for some kind of spiritual understanding realize after a while that there are stations on the journey. There are steps. There are hills. There are plateaus. But in summation, you are either in a state of love or doing what you can to get to a state of love. [...]

Love

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:56:40 +0000

To understand love we have to take into consideration what our conception of love is. If we don’t have a conception of love, we’re going to have trouble putting it into practice and into play. So when we say love, what do we mean? Do we mean the relationship between a man and a woman? [...]

Sincerity in Intention

admin — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:24:54 +0000

Tasawuf is the word used in the East for the word we call Sufism. Tasawuf is a reference to coarse wool. And it was the garb of sufis in the ancient days to wear coarse wool robes. Coarse wool, of course, has the implication that they were uncomfortable. And the point being that the ones [...]