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Why Retreat?

“Action expresses priorities.” – Mahatma Gandhi To change anything takes practice. Addictions — they’re bad habits. Very bad. Beyond our reach, we say to ourselves. Beyond our will power. Breaking them takes more than wishful thinking, more than a few days of intentionality. If you’re hooked on addictive substances, you’re dug in deep; you need [...]

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During the Asheville, NC Dancemeditation Weekend: I had strong dreams which I can’t remember — part of their charm, but it was a relief to sleep deeply, to dream fully, to be in a world not nailed down. A world of odd intuition, paradox, pockets of clarity and pockets of dark fragments that weren’t frantic [...]

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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, [...]

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