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, decipher, and [...]
Posted in Movement Monastery, Poems, Retreat on Jun 7th, 2009
Walk to the well
Turn as the earth and the moon turn
Circling what they love
Whatever circles comes from the center
–Rumi
Posted in Retreat, testimonials on Mar 21st, 2009
This year’s Kripalu retreat was particularly wonderful (though each one has been full of opening, creativity and spiritual journey.) Kripalu nurtures us all. As I read these testimonials — they are a routine concluding activity that Kripalu requests of its Presenters and participants — I feel such joy and appreciation of everyone’s openness towards and [...]