Podcasts

The Themes of 2015, A Retrospective (12/31/2015)

"The Themes of 2015, A Retrospective" is a sohbet on the themes of the last year, some core principles of Sufi practice, and the possibilities of conscious community.

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As Much As We Love

Reflections on this month’s theme, ‘The beauty of the human being is as much and as great as their love.’

What Brought You to This Path (8/22/2015)

Sohbet with Kabir Dede.

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July Theme: Affirming the Real Ya Haqq (7/2/2015)

Reflections on this month’s theme, ‘Be cleansed of shallow idolatries; affirm the Real. Ya Haqq.’

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June Theme: Patience is Crowned with Faith

What benefit can there possibly be in rushing through some moments to get to others? Every moment is the perfect gift of the divine, manifested for our benefit. Moments of difficulty and challenge are moments in which the soul has the potential to develop and awaken new qualities.

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The Natural State of the Human Being (4/23/2015)

Sohbet recording with reflections on the theme for April 2015, ‘The natural state of the human being is worship. The human being needs God as the garden needs spring’.

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Be Gold Yourself (11/06/2014)

Sohbet recording with reflections on the theme for November 2014, two lines from a Ghazel of Hafiz:

“Wash your hands of the cheap metals of existence like the mature, so that you may find the philosopher’s Stone of love and become gold yourself.”

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Hope, Activity and Awe (10/16/2014)

Reflections on the theme for October: “The interpretation of a sacred text is true if it stirs you to hope, activity, and awe.”

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The Ladder of Truth (8/7/2014)

There is something precious in a human soul that treasures communion with the Divine. All other riches are a poor imitation. What is real is the Spirit within us. Our being in community reflects Reality from heart to heart. Until our own heart becomes a reflector of Truth. Sometimes we need some help to awaken that reflection. There is help from the other side if we make at least a gesture of human will.

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The Alchemy of Striving (3/7/2014)

The importance of effort and affirming intentions; the struggle between affirmation and denial, and the blessing of presence and the grace of God.

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Developing the Inner Life (6/26/2014)

Individual and group cohesion and its electro-magnetic nature; the reciprocal relationship of God and Man through remembrance; the importance of community and relationship.

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