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The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi

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“Already in this world the perfect Sufis live with God. They journey into the Infinite, listening to the music of God’s creative command. At each moment God says “Be” and a new selfdisclosure, more glorious and perfect than the preceding, delights the eye. In the words of Iraqi, The song will never cease, nor the dance come to an end, for all eternity, because the Beloved is infinite.”

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Book:Sufism: A Beginner's Guide
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“Bir şeye inandığınız anda, gücünüzü o inanca teslim etmiş oluyorsunuz. Bunu biliyor muydunuz? Hasta olmanıza şaşmamalı! Kendinizi iyileştirememenize şaşmamalı! Hiçbir şey Hiçbir şey yapamıyorsunuz; çünkü, düşüncelerinizin tek kaynağı, başkalarının ne düşündükleridir. Halbuki elinizin altında deha hazır bekliyor. ''Toplumsal Bilinç'' denen bilinç düzeyinde yaşıyorsunuz. Başkalarının sınırlı düşüncelerine göre yaşıyorsunuz. Bir ''sürü'' gibi yaşıyorsunuz. Bunu yaptığınızda da gücünüzü teslim ediyorsunuz.”

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Book:Ramtha Intensive: Soulmates
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“In Sufism we understand the human being to be composed of three aspects: self, heart, and spirit. Self is the experience of our personal identity, including our thoughts and emotions. Heart is something deeper, experienced through an inner knowing, often with a quality of compassion, conscience, and love. It can ultimately lead to the recognition of the deepest part of ourselves - our inmost consciousness, or Spirit, the reflection of God within us. If we simply say that souls is our inner being, then the quality of our inner being, or soul, is the result of the relationship between self and our innermost consciousness, Spirit. The self without the presence of spirit is merely ego, the false mask, which is governed by self-centered thoughts and emotions. The more the self becomes infused with spirit, the more „soulful“ it becomes. We use the words presence and remembrance to describe the conscious connection between self and Spirit. The more we live mindfully with presence, the more we remember God, and the more soulful we are, the more we drop the mask. Care of the soul, then, is always the cultivation of presence and remembrance. Presence includes all the ways we mindfully attend to our lives. Soul is the child of the union of self and spirit. When this union has matured, the soul acquires substance and structure. That is why it is said in some teachings that we do not automatically have a soul; we must acquire one through our spiritual work. (p. 75)”

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Book:Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self
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“The mirror of pure awareness is obscured by layers of emotional and mental conditioning. Just as polishing transforms a mineral or stone into a reflective object, regularly wiping clean the mirror of awareness will allow a human being to reflect the light of Being itself. The spiritual process can be understood as learning to consciously reflect more and more of this Being. If we would clear the inner mirror, the light of Being would be reflected outwardly, pouring out of our eyes. (p. 100)”

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Book:Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self
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