not an oxymoron
Posted in Of Core Knowing, Retreat, The Path on Jul 4th, 2009
Sufis never try to make experience fit theory. Instead, let theory fall around the shoulders of your experience like a well-fitted coat. One’s experience in mysticism is direct. It belongs to the mystic. Reading the words of other Sufis is a support, a confirmation. It is up to practitioners to reflect on their Inner Communion, [...]
Posted in Of Core Knowing, On Personal Practice, Poems on Jan 11th, 2009
In the land of false flowers, there is a mirror. Stop gaping there. Turns your eyes in, where Gaze has heat running under the skin, and marbles of pulses roll along the canals between the eyeballs and toes. Sensation is the first way of Knowing who we are. This Dance is not what you think. [...]
Posted in Of Core Knowing on Dec 26th, 2008
In the year’s turning, I dance my way back into the many strands of Truth that escape my tight self. My hair falls free. Truth. Into my heart comes a gush of clean Truth, a flame, a song, a wind, and I can move (and we can all move) beyond my “I”, my “my”. All [...]
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