You may have heard the Sufi story about an Ocean-Frog who comes to visit a pond-frog, whose pond is three feet by four feet by two feet deep. The pond-frog is very eager and proud to show off the dimensions of his habitat, which in the story signify the limits of mind and desire. He [...]
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pond frog
Posted in Sufi, favorite things on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
water of life
Posted in Sufi, favorite things on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“It is a patient pursuit to bring water from the depth of the ground; one has to deal with much mud in digging before one reaches the water of life.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan
“Humility like the earth…”
Posted in Islam, Sufi, favorite things on July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Humility like the earth,
generosity like the river,
affection like the sun.
Khwaja Muinuddin Chishtiyya
a field
Posted in Islam, Sufi, favorite things on September 14, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn’t make any sense.
mevlana jelaluddin rumi – 13th century
