“Do Not Visit the Sufi Unless You Want to Benefit”
Sufi teacher and author Idries Shah on the importance and mind-opening potential of the teacher-student relationship.
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The God of Ideas
Huston Smith on how his intellect and love of ideas brought him into a closer relationship with God, in an activity known as jnana, the Indian form of yoga centered around knowledge.
Kabir – The Moon Shines in my Body
Kabir was a 15th century Indian mystic and poet who was also a weaver by trade. His vision combined the philosophies of Hinduism and Sufism, and he is considered both a Sufi and Brahmin saint. His poetry is rooted in nature and the experience of the ordinary, through which he seeks the ‘unstruck drum of… Continue reading Kabir – The Moon Shines in my Body
‘We are born in mystery and we die in mystery’ – Huston Smith
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder,” wrote Huston Smith, one of the 20th centuries most prominent scholars of world religion in his book, Beyond a Post-Modern Mind. And it’s wonder that primarily comes across in his autobiography called Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, in which he gives… Continue reading ‘We are born in mystery and we die in mystery’ – Huston Smith
Year in Recap: The Most Read Dewdrops of 2019
Thich Nhat Hanh, Toni Morrison and Seung Sahn: the ten most popular posts from The Dewdrop’s first year.
