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Kabir Helminski



Kabir Helminski is an American Shaikh of the Mevlevi Order of Sufis, author, educator and retreat facilitator. He is cofounder, with his wife Camille Helminski, of The Threshold Society, a nonprofit educational foundation that has developed programs to provide a structure for practice and study within Sufism and spiritual psychology.

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The Rumi Daybook: 365 Poems and Teachings from the Beloved Sufi Master

"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.

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Kabir Helmiski, Camille Helminski
2011
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Living Presence: The Sufi Path to Mindfulness and the Essential Self

With unique clarity, this book describes how presence can be developed to vastly improve our lives. Drawing on the work of the beloved Sufi poet, Rumi, as well as traditional material and personal experience, this book integrates the ancient wisdom of Sufism with the needs of contemporary life.

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Kabir Edmund Helminski
2017
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Being Willed by the Truth - Kabir Helminski

Being Willed by the Truth - Kabir Helminksi

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Kabir Helminski
2013
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Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self

Sufism is a centuries-old spiritual psychology leading to presence in life. Presence is our capacity to be whole in the moment, in alignment with our deepest wisdom. With unusual clarity, this book describes how presence is different from ordinary habits of mind, and how it can be developed.

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Kabir Edmund Helminski
1992
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The Faceted Gem of Wisdom

Beloved you have created everything with the Truth. So let me enter whatever I enter with the Truth, and make my going forth with the Truth. Whoever begins with Truth, ends with Truth.

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Kabir Helminski
2016
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Be Cleansed of Shallow Idolatries: Shaikh Kabir Helminski

Shaikh Kabir Helminski offers a sohbet (discourse & discussion) on July’s theme of the month: “Be cleansed of shallow idolatries; affirm the Real. Ya Haqq.

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Kabir Helminski
2019
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The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation

In Sufi teaching the human heart is not a fanciful metaphor but an objective organ of intuition and perception. It perceives all that is beautiful, lovely, and meaningful in life—and reflects these spiritual qualities in the world, for the benefit of others.

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Kabir Helminski
2025
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The Book of Revelations: A Sourcebook of Themes from the Holy Qur'an

Those interested in Islamic literature and spirituality are invited to pore over this rigorous and highly polished English translation of the Qur'an, the religion's quintessential text.

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Kabir Helminski
2025
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The Book of Language: A Deep Glossary of Islamic and English Spiritual Terms

The spiritual vocabulary of the Islamic tradition offers profound and enlightening concepts that do not easily lend themselves to English translation.

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Kabir Helminski
2006
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The Qualitative Science of the Heart: Kabir Helminski

Sufism is a discipline, a methodology, for enhancing and refining spiritual perception. The human being has a range of subtle faculties for knowing, the totality of which we can call the spiritual heart. The science of the heart is a science of qualities, not quantities.

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Kabir Helminski
2017
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