Sufi Insight Entropy | 11 Feb 2008
Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing: Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway. Millions of beings are there: the sun and the moon in their courses are there: Millions of ages pass, and the swing goes on. All [...]
Sprituality &Sufi Insight Entropy | 25 Nov 2007
Perhaps the most celebrated verse of Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat, Which is effortless and sincere, which expresses the reality and consequences of life. The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it [...]
Literature &Sufi Insight Entropy | 02 Nov 2007
The following is a parable from ‘Echoes of an Autobiography’ by the Nobel Laureate Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz. Sheikh Abd-Rabbih al-Ta’ih said: I stood before the holy tomb as I asked God for health and long life. An old beggar with tattered clothes approached me. “Do you really want a long life?” he asked me. [...]
Sufi Insight Entropy | 21 Aug 2006
A dervish was asked why he worshipped God through dance. “Because,” he replied, ” to worship God means to die to self; dancing kills self. When the self dies all problems die with it. Where the self is not, Love is, God is”