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		Comment on A handbook for students of the new medicine of the soul by Yan		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 19:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to @Azam Zahmati

As per OstadElahi.com, you can buy the electronic version of the book from Apple Books, Google Play, Kindle [Amazon], NOOK

https://ostadelahi.com/works/related-works/]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to @Azam Zahmati</p>
<p>As per OstadElahi.com, you can buy the electronic version of the book from Apple Books, Google Play, Kindle [Amazon], NOOK</p>
<p><a href="https://ostadelahi.com/works/related-works/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://ostadelahi.com/works/related-works/</a></p>
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		Comment on A handbook for students of the new medicine of the soul by azam zahmati		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[azam zahmati]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How can I get the electronic version of this book?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How can I get the electronic version of this book?</p>
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		Comment on A handbook for students of the new medicine of the soul by Linda		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Linda]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you so much for presenting the book here and for the link to the Synopsis and the interview. Indeed Dr. Elahi never fails to be succinct and right to the point as he is in the interview.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you so much for presenting the book here and for the link to the Synopsis and the interview. Indeed Dr. Elahi never fails to be succinct and right to the point as he is in the interview.</p>
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		Comment on “Exploring our real self”: a new lab on Ostadelahi-inPractice by Naghme		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naghme]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 01:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I feel so blessed for reading this handbook and so thankful and excited about starting this lab. No excuse left for not practicing.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel so blessed for reading this handbook and so thankful and excited about starting this lab. No excuse left for not practicing.</p>
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		Comment on Our ultimate reality: excerpt 3 of a lecture by Bahram Elahi, MD by Ali		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ali]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you. Very beautiful and valuable.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you. Very beautiful and valuable.</p>
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		Comment on “Exploring our real self”: a new lab on Ostadelahi-inPractice by Fnm		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fnm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2022 23:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Such great news! Thank you so much.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Such great news! Thank you so much.</p>
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		Comment on “Exploring our real self”: a new lab on Ostadelahi-inPractice by HA		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HA]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 06:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is so exciting. Thank you for all the hard work that goes into the site, and for the opportunity to strengthen both our in vitro understanding and our in vivo practice in such an easily accessible way. With these tools, we are much more prepared for the relentless battle with the imperious self.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is so exciting. Thank you for all the hard work that goes into the site, and for the opportunity to strengthen both our in vitro understanding and our in vivo practice in such an easily accessible way. With these tools, we are much more prepared for the relentless battle with the imperious self.</p>
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		Comment on “Exploring our real self”: a new lab on Ostadelahi-inPractice by LA		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[LA]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you for providing us this in vivo opportunity to work on ourselves!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for providing us this in vivo opportunity to work on ourselves!</p>
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		Comment on Portraits of the imperious self (4): the imperious self is rebellious by HSH		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HSH]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2022 16:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I absolutely agree with your comment. Most of the time, when I ask myself why I am doing such unreasonable things and losing my precious time, the answer is my imperious self. I feel sorry for myself. Thanks dear Yan. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I absolutely agree with your comment. Most of the time, when I ask myself why I am doing such unreasonable things and losing my precious time, the answer is my imperious self. I feel sorry for myself. Thanks dear Yan. </p>
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		Comment on Portraits of the imperious self (4): the imperious self is rebellious by yan		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[yan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 19:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One night when I was about to watch my favourite show on Netflix, I would keep getting connection errors. I attempted various troubleshooting such as logging off/on Netflix, resetting my wifi, powering off/on my router, and so far so on. It took a while until I could re-establish the connection. During all this time I was so persistent and I wouldn&#039;t take no for an answer. I even thought of using my cellular data by creating a hotspot, in case I couldn&#039;t fix the wifi! I eventually fixed the wifi and watched my show! 

I was reflecting on this experience asking myself; have I ever been this persistent and diligent concerning my prayer? Have I ever cared this much to establish/re-establish my connection with the One, at times of my prayer? Unfortunately and humbly, no! 
Even though, at times of distraction, I attempt to re-establish the connection a few times in a row; however, most of the time, after several unsuccessful attempts, I would &quot;call it a night&quot;, sufficing on the verbal aspect of my prayer. On the contrary, I would act much more diligently concerning my material life, when my material and/or my psychological benefit/pleasure is at stake!

In one of her essays &quot;Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies in View of the Love of God&quot;, Simone Weil discusses the indirect and important impacts of school studies on spiritual life. She also outlines that &quot;attention&quot; is not a &quot;muscular effort&quot;. The first time, I read an excerpt of this essay in the &quot;Connecting with the Divine&quot; lab on Ostadelahi-Inpractice.com

&quot;Most often, we confuse attention with a kind of muscular effort. If we say to the students, ‘You must pay attention,’ we can see them frown with their eyebrows, hold their breath and contract their muscles. If after two minutes we ask them what they are paying attention to, they cannot respond. They are paying attention to nothing. They are not paying attention. They are contracting their muscles. We can expend this type of muscular effort in studies. Because it ends in fatigue, we get the impression of having worked. This is an illusion. Fatigue has no relationship to work. Work is useful effort, whether there is fatigue or not. This kind of muscular effort in studies is completely sterile, even when performed with good intentions.&quot; Weil, Simone. Waiting On God Kindle Edition. 

&quot;The role of desire in our studies allows them to be preparation for the spiritual life. For desire, oriented toward God, is the only force capable of raising the soul. Or rather, God alone comes to possess and lift the soul, but only desire obliges God to descend. God only comes to those who ask God to come—those who ask often, for a long time and ardently. God cannot prevent Himself from coming to them. Attention is an effort, perhaps the greatest of all efforts, but it is a negative effort. By itself, it does not involve fatigue. When we feel fatigue, attention is nearly impossible, unless we have already had good practice.&quot; Weil, Simone. Waiting On God Kindle Edition.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One night when I was about to watch my favourite show on Netflix, I would keep getting connection errors. I attempted various troubleshooting such as logging off/on Netflix, resetting my wifi, powering off/on my router, and so far so on. It took a while until I could re-establish the connection. During all this time I was so persistent and I wouldn&#8217;t take no for an answer. I even thought of using my cellular data by creating a hotspot, in case I couldn&#8217;t fix the wifi! I eventually fixed the wifi and watched my show! </p>
<p>I was reflecting on this experience asking myself; have I ever been this persistent and diligent concerning my prayer? Have I ever cared this much to establish/re-establish my connection with the One, at times of my prayer? Unfortunately and humbly, no!<br />
Even though, at times of distraction, I attempt to re-establish the connection a few times in a row; however, most of the time, after several unsuccessful attempts, I would &#8220;call it a night&#8221;, sufficing on the verbal aspect of my prayer. On the contrary, I would act much more diligently concerning my material life, when my material and/or my psychological benefit/pleasure is at stake!</p>
<p>In one of her essays &#8220;Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies in View of the Love of God&#8221;, Simone Weil discusses the indirect and important impacts of school studies on spiritual life. She also outlines that &#8220;attention&#8221; is not a &#8220;muscular effort&#8221;. The first time, I read an excerpt of this essay in the &#8220;Connecting with the Divine&#8221; lab on Ostadelahi-Inpractice.com</p>
<p>&#8220;Most often, we confuse attention with a kind of muscular effort. If we say to the students, ‘You must pay attention,’ we can see them frown with their eyebrows, hold their breath and contract their muscles. If after two minutes we ask them what they are paying attention to, they cannot respond. They are paying attention to nothing. They are not paying attention. They are contracting their muscles. We can expend this type of muscular effort in studies. Because it ends in fatigue, we get the impression of having worked. This is an illusion. Fatigue has no relationship to work. Work is useful effort, whether there is fatigue or not. This kind of muscular effort in studies is completely sterile, even when performed with good intentions.&#8221; Weil, Simone. Waiting On God Kindle Edition. </p>
<p>&#8220;The role of desire in our studies allows them to be preparation for the spiritual life. For desire, oriented toward God, is the only force capable of raising the soul. Or rather, God alone comes to possess and lift the soul, but only desire obliges God to descend. God only comes to those who ask God to come—those who ask often, for a long time and ardently. God cannot prevent Himself from coming to them. Attention is an effort, perhaps the greatest of all efforts, but it is a negative effort. By itself, it does not involve fatigue. When we feel fatigue, attention is nearly impossible, unless we have already had good practice.&#8221; Weil, Simone. Waiting On God Kindle Edition.</p>
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		Comment on A handbook for students of the new medicine of the soul by mahnaz		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mahnaz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2022 23:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you so very much for the new book, in english.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you so very much for the new book, in english.</p>
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		Comment on A handbook for students of the new medicine of the soul by pzlz		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[pzlz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This book is epic in every way. Never seen such quality paperback. The colors, the binding, the print... I have read the Farsi version and I am reading the English now. The clarity, harmony, and the flow used in this version is out of this world, which makes reading it so effortless. How could that be? Each word is carefully chosen as noted in the &quot;Note on the English Translation&quot;. Talking about the content of the book is beyond me. I keep going back to the first figure to remind myself of who am I really? I am speechless and immensely grateful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This book is epic in every way. Never seen such quality paperback. The colors, the binding, the print&#8230; I have read the Farsi version and I am reading the English now. The clarity, harmony, and the flow used in this version is out of this world, which makes reading it so effortless. How could that be? Each word is carefully chosen as noted in the &#8220;Note on the English Translation&#8221;. Talking about the content of the book is beyond me. I keep going back to the first figure to remind myself of who am I really? I am speechless and immensely grateful.</p>
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