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A Concert with Yuval Ron and the Guibord Center
Saturday, October 19th, 2013, 7pm
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Monday, October 21st, 2013, 7pm
USC, Los Angeles, California
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‘Urs in Delhi
Posted by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan on February 24, 2011
“Khusraw! Deep into the night of union, I stayed awake with my love … My body, her heart: both of one color.” The words are Amir Khusraw’s, the saint’s dearest disciple, his “Turk of God.” Booming drumbeats and the blare of harmoniums drive the message home.
Summer’s End
Posted by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan on September 14, 2010
It has been quite some time since I last wrote. Life has been full, and I have been frequently away from home.
A Primary Reading List
Posted by Richard Grossinger on June 24, 2010
When I was twenty, the poet Robert Kelly presented my wife Lindy and me with a reading list to get us started, so to speak, in life.
Alia Johnson, February 14, 1948 to May 5, 2010
Posted by Gayan Macher on June 19, 2010
Alia was my teacher and my friend, two most beautiful words.
An Ecological Disaster: Polluting the Waters of Life
Posted by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on June 18, 2010
Recently we have been witnessing the worst ecological disaster in North America with the oil gushing from the depths of the Gulf.
Finding Peace and What Really Matters at the Cemetery
Posted by Pythia Peay on June 18, 2010
Call me dark, odd, or a bit of a mystic, but I’ve always been drawn to cemeteries.
Sufi Sheikh Who Preached Nonviolence Laid to Rest
Posted by Seven Pillars on June 18, 2010
In a small and ancient family plot attached to his ancestral home in Jerusalem’s Old City, Sufi leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bukhari was laid to rest on Tuesday, June 1, at age 61, after a long struggle with heart disease. He was head of the mystical Naqshabandi Holy Land Sufi Order.
Standing Together with Sinai at the Center
Posted by The Shalom Center on May 18, 2010
This year, Shavuot begins on the evening of May 18. All night that night, in many communities, study of the Torah goes on from evening till dawn.
The Prayer of the Heart
Posted by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on April 23, 2010
At the heart of most religions is prayer: a way to communicate with God. There are the prescribed prayers, the rituals of inner communion. But there is also our own personal prayer—our way of being with God.
Praise for Trees, Nature’s Prophets
Posted by Pythia Peay on April 22, 2010
Trees may be paragons of stability. But as the naturalist John Muir wrote, “The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.”
Avatar, Exodus & Kabbalah
Posted by Rabbi Arthur Waskow on March 31, 2010
In the Exodus story, it is locusts and frogs, rivers and hailstorms – what we call the Ten Plagues – that carry out the word of God and shatter Pharaoh when he refuses to free the shepherd-folk, the Hebrews, whom he has tried first to enslave and then to exterminate.
Reclaiming Our Spiritual Heritage
Posted by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on March 23, 2010
We live in a culture of religious diversity that is at present experiencing a reawakening of interest in spirituality.
Unlock Creativity Through Your Dreams
Posted by Pythia Peay on March 23, 2010
Few rhymes capture the enchantment of sleep like the lullaby “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.”
The God Project
Posted by Josh Schrei on March 23, 2010
Trying to explain the core beliefs of Hinduism to an interested observer can be challenging to say the least.
Announcing Seven Pillars’ Guiding Voices
Posted by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan on February 4, 2010
Seven Pillars has been in existence for a year and a half now, and with each passing season our “house with no walls” has taken fuller shape.
Praying My Way to Sleep
Posted by Pythia Peay on February 4, 2010
The images of devastation in the wake of Haiti's earthquake follow me to bed, and continue to haunt my sleep.
The Order of Universal Sannyasa
Posted by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan on January 15, 2010
The late Brother Wayne Teasdale envisioned the creation of a loose-strung order of visionary activists committed to the ideals of interspirituality. Now Brother Wayne's friends are making his dream a reality.
Weathering the Winter of the Soul
Posted by Pythia Peay on January 14, 2010
I grew up on a farm on the Western edge of Missouri, hard by Kansas. This was the prairie landscape of our frontier forebears, and upon its blank canvas the seasons were clearly marked.
Climate Change in Copenhagen: Spiritual Leaders Gather
Posted by Jennifer Alia Wittman on December 17, 2009
Our friends at the Global Peace Initiative of Women have gathered spiritual and religious leaders to meet throughout the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this past week.
Wanting Like a God: Desire and Freedom in Thomas Traherne by Denise Inge
Posted by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan on December 16, 2009
But for a highly improbable string of discoveries, Thomas Traherne’s mystical masterpieces might have been irretrievably lost in the sands of time.
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