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Louisville Meetings

October 8, 2020  A talk on Suluuk, and the "Five-Fold Circle of Suluuk" August 6, 2020 Meditation on breath and sohbet on Hold tight to the rope of God. July 30, 2020 Eid July 16, 2020 A contemplation on the Nur of the Beloved. [The sohbet recording was unfortunately [...]

A Door Held Open Wide

Matthew Wright from the Threshold West Park NY circle reflects on the Mevlevi path and how we can live a spiritual life beyond labels and dogma.

Be Humble in Love; Be Bold in Loving

Hz. Abul Hasan Kharaqani, Kars Sooner or later those who travel the path of God will encounter a series of questions related to the very existence of the "self." What began as a self-evident and solid "I," an identity made up of desires, satisfactions, disappointments, insecurities, and aspirations, gradually becomes a rather different [...]

Unfold the Wings of your Essence

In the State of True Friendship: Shams & Mevlana A recent sohbet with Shaikh Kabir & Camille Ana Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Kabir Dede: This is the day that Hazreti Shams first came to Konya. In emptying our hearts, as much as we are able, we will hear and be encouraged in our own journeying by [...]

Endeavor to Make God Your Companion in Every Spiritual State

A transcribed sohbet of Shaikh Kabir, from the forthcoming book The Living Tradition, Discourses on the Sufi Path The Qur’an says: In His causes you ought to strive. The Arabic word jihada could be translated as “strive.” The real jihada, the real spiritual striving, is reconciling the energy or force from which we gain a [...]

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