“The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.”
― Idries Shah

#Bot #Quote #Llumination #Love #Sufism

"There is a #beautiful #saying, that #Sufism was at #first #heartache. Only later it became something to talk about because, as I have mentioned, Sufism is about this #love #affair with #God that #begins within the #heart and #ends within the #Heart"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6LNfZoTYGE

“To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.”
― Idries Shah

#Bot #Quote #Bektashi #Sufis #Sufism

"At the deepest level, consciousness exists in an undifferentiated state, containing all possible forms of reality."

https://biofield.substack.com/p/consciousness-isnt-made-in-the-brain-de7

#Consciousness #Physics #Philosophy #QuantumMechanics #Neuroscience #Gnosticism #Taoism #Buddhism #Sufism #Mysticism #Spirituality

Our next hybrid lecture is "Sufi Teaching in the Margins: Ritual, Pedagogy, and Intertextuality in a Kubrawi Manuscript from 15th C. Badakhshan" by Bruno de Nicola!

The lecture is tomorrow, 17:00-18:30 Central European Time: more details at https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veranstaltungen/event-details/sufi-teaching-in-the-margins-ritual-pedagogy-and-intertextuality-in-a-kubrawi-manuscript-from-15th-c-badakhshan

#IranianStudies #Sufism #Manuscripts #Islam

Today's poem:

Think of Others
- by Mahmoud Darwish,

translated by Mohammed Shaheen

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/805465929397026816/think-of-others?source=share

#poetry #sufism #MahmoudDarwish #palestine #islam

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits was taken in le Kef, Tunisia - the dome of the zaouia of Sidi ben Ali Aissa.

#SidiBenAliAissa #dome #architecture #zaouia #shrine #tomb #sufism #FolkMuseum #LeKef #tunisia

Today's poem:

On the Road to Konya
- by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/805259339240767488/on-the-road-to-konya?source=share

#poetry #God #divine #immanence #sufism #rumi #DanielAbdalHayyMoore

"This book is all madness.
Reason is alien to these pages.
Not until the soul breathes in
the fragrance of its own lunacy
can it stop being a stranger to itself."

#Bookstodon #BookReview #Sufism #EasternPhilosophy

The Conference of the Birds by Attar of Nishapur
https://hermitage.utsob.me/reading/books/read/the-conference-of-the-birds-by-attar/