An offering with love from Camille Hamilton Adams Helminski
Designed with Matthew Helminski for Sweet Lady Press
2025 calendar containing vibrant photographs of flowers of the month, from the garden beyond the door of Camille’s home. Each month is also accompanied by a verse from Mevlana Rumi or sacred text, lunar phases, religious holidays honored from multiple faiths, and select USA & global remembrance days.
Mark your way through the year with beauty and grace.
Whoever is sitting with friends
Is in the midst of a flower garden.
[Rumi, Mathnawi IV:1976]
The Sufi Path to Mindfulness and the Essential Self
By Kabir Helminski
Revised 25th anniversary edition
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. Drawing on the words of the great Sufi, Rumi, as well as traditional material and personal experience, this book integrates the wisdom of Sufism with the needs of contemporary life.
Also available as an Amazon Audible audiobook, narrated by Iman Mortagy.
By Jalaluddin Rumi
Translated by Kabir Helminski
Jalaluddin Rumi, one of the greatest mystics and poets the world has ever known, said, "love is a stranger and speaks a strange language." And yet Rumi's message of spiritual love speaks directly to our hearts after more than seven hundred years. This volume contains most of the earlier The Ruins of the Heart in revised form as well as an equal amount of new translations. A quintessential collection.
By Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak
Generosity, faith, self-knowledge, submission, love... these themes unfold through the conversations of the Turkish Sufi master Sheikh Muzaffer, head of the Halveti-Jerrahi Order and one of the most important Sufi teachers of our time. A fine storyteller, a mature human being, a respected author in his native country, he was well-suited to bring the richness of the Sufi tradition to the West. The chapters of this book, skillfully edited and compiled by the noted psychologist Dr. Robert Frager, were derived from talks given during visits to America over the last years of his life.
Translated by Ahmad Rezwani and Kabir Helminski
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. The poems in this collection, taken from among the master’s many volumes of work, focus on one of his greatest themes: how love grows and matures for those on the spiritual path.
An Esoteric History of the Spiritual Unfolding of Life on This Planet
By J.G. Bennett
J.G. Bennett was working on this book when he died. He details the unfolding of Spirit in matter to yield its ultimate fruit: a conscious human being totally free of egoism. He considers the possibility of an inner circle of humanity exerting its influence to establish cosmic Love in human life. In the course of telling this story, Bennett touches on the most ancient spiritual traditions of humankind: the Savior God, the Great Mother, the Creator God, and the Great Spirit traditions. He offers his own insights into the real mission of Christ, and for a good part of the book examines the teaching methods of the Central Asian Sufis, the Khwajagan.
By Hasan Lutfi Shushud
Almost one thousand years ago a nexus of spiritual transmission emerged in Central Asia and lasted for five centuries. This classic work lays out the entire lineage of teachers from the golden age of Islamic Sufism, examining their spiritual journeys, their writings and teachings, and their most famous sayings.
Hasan Lutfi Shushud (1902-1988) was born near Izmir in Anatolia, Turkey. A renowned Sufi saint and master, he was perhaps best known for his role as final guide to Gurdjieff’s disciple J. G. Bennett.
Mevlevi Adab and Customs by Abdülbâki Gölpınarlı is a comprehensive sourcebook for the Mevlevî tradition, presenting its unique language, ceremonies, social customs, and beliefs. The Mevlevî Path originated with Mevlânâ Jalâluddîn Rûmî and evolved through the collective cultural and spiritual contributions of its initiates and institutions.
“The Mevlevî Tradition, for nearly seven centuries, represented Islamic civilization in the vast and fertile lands of the Ottomans, who ruled over three continents. Within its own aesthetic and technical values, it has left indelible marks on world civilization. It has produced magnificent musical works, nurtured renowned poets, created the finest handicrafts, and, at times, produced the most mystical works. It has fostered and developed the most humane emotions, expressed the deepest thoughts, resisted bigotry, and infused life with a taste that is both divine and human.”
~ Abdülbâki Gölpınarlı
A litany of daily prayers recited by Mevlevi dervishes: read in English by Camille Helminski, and in Arabic by Mahmoud Mostafa.
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Intimations of the Beauty and Power of the Divine
by Camille Hamilton Adams Helminski
We offer these reflections on the “Ninety-Nine Names of God,” traditional to Islam and the Quranic revelation, to support the increased opening of our awareness to all the Generosity and Loving-kindness of the Divine Bestowal. The Divine is so generous with the qualities of Being that in any moment they may be perceived in new ways, in varied intermingled resonances, with different hues, to touch our hearts and minds and souls and bodies, and awaken us in awe. Intimations of the Names, as they arrived within this heart, are included here in twos or threes or more, in clusters or constellations of Names, that we, dear reader, might be encouraged to look and witness again the dancing and singing of all the Names, even beyond the Ninety-Nine here expressed, in all the realms of our existence.
By John Moyne and Coleman Barks
"Felicitous new translations of Rumi, the witty and mystical, Villon-like poet... These reflections on love, the dance of selves, happiness, acceptance of life's sorrows, and the transitory nature of joy are touchingly sensitive in their search for philosophical peace of mind." -- Library Journal
Edited by Kabir Helminski
Here is a collection of the most inspiring poetry of Rumi, small enough to take anywhere. It contains selections from four previously published books, as well as new translations of short lyric poems.
