In this poem, Mark Nepo reflects on experiencing wholeness through allowing things to break.
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'Wherever You Turn Is the Face of God' -- talk by Camille Helminski, taken at the Baraka Retreat 2011
Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207–1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets.
"My heart wandered through the world constantly seeking after my cure, but the sweet and delicious water of life had to break through the granite of my heart." When the words of Rumi enter your heart, something softens, breaks, and is subtly reborn.
How can you develop spiritual understanding? This sequel to Learning How to Learn and The Commanding Self turns that question on its head. It claims that we're bombarded by a spiritual impulse all the time. So it's more useful to look at the reasons we don't learn.
This collection of poems introduces a general readership to Yunus Emre (1240–1321), called the “greatest folk poet in Islam.