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		<title>Joel Goldsmith On The Soul</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 19:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Joel Goldsmith isn&#8217;t actually a Sufi, but his ideas and teachings do seem to be in alignment with the Sufi way. Here is what he has to say about the soul: The soul is a part of man which is little known and only seldom realized. Often those in the depths of some deep sorrow [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Cards</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[A Hasid complained to Rabbi Wolf that certain persons were turning night into day, playing cards. &#8220;That is good,&#8221; said the zaddik. &#8220;Like all people they want to serve God and don&#8217;t know how. But now they are learning to stay awake and persist in doing something. When they have become perfect in this, all [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Wife</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mullah Nasruddin]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA[Mullah Nasruddin was sitting in a tea shop when a friend came excitedly to speak with him. &#8220;I&#8217;m about to get married, Mullah,&#8221; his friend stated, &#8220;and I&#8217;m very excited. Mullah, have you ever thought of marriage yourself?&#8221; Nasruddin replied, &#8220;I did think of getting married. In my youth in fact I very much wanted [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>No Tigers Here</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Mullah Nasruddin is both a fool and a wise man. He was out one day in his garden sprinkling bread crumbs around the flowerbeds. A neighbor came by and asked, &#8220;Mullah, why are you doing that?&#8221; Nasruddin answered, &#8220;Oh, I do it to keep the tigers away.&#8221; The neighbor said, &#8220;But there aren&#8217;t any tigers [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Half and Half</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Four Indians enter a mosque and begin the prostrations. Deep, sincere praying. But a priest walks by, and one of the Indians, without thinking, says &#8220;Oh, are you going to give the call to prayers now? Is it time?&#8221; The second Indian, under his breath, &#8220;You spoke. Now your prayers are invalid.&#8221; The third, &#8220;Uncle, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Be Alive</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[There is a tale of a man who fell gravely ill and then appeared to have died. His body was gathered up, washed, and placed in a coffin, all the funeral preparations were made, and the priest invited. The coffin was being carried to the graveyard when there came a knocking from inside. It was [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Something Circling Inside</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Circle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spinning]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA[You have said what you are. I am what I am. Your actions in my head, my head here in my hands with something circling inside. I have no name for what circles so perfectly. ~Rumi]]></description>
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		<title>I Circle Your Nest</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[I circle your nest tonight, around and around until morning when a breath of air says, Now, and the Friend holds up like a goblet some anonymous skull. ~Rumi]]></description>
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		<title>Be A Full Bucket</title>
		<link>https://shirleytwofeathers.com/The_Blog/towardtheone/be-a-full-bucket/</link>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moon]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA[Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into the light. ~Rumi]]></description>
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		<title>A Soapy Story</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clarity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Unseen World]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA[This is a South Indian story about soap: Soap is the dirt we buy. We introduce it to the dirt we have, and the two dirts are so glad to see each other they come out and mix! They swim together in the warm pleasurable water and, at just the right moment, the washer lifts [&#8230;]]]></description>
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