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11 Types of Divine Love: How You Can Recognize Eternal Love in Your Life

By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar — 2018

Divine love manifests in eleven different types. Though Divine love is only one, you can see it coming out in eleven different forms. This is an excerpt from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s commentary on Narada’s Bhakti Sutras.

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The Suttanipata: An Ancient Collection of the Buddha’s Discourses Together with Its Commentaries

This landmark volume in the Teachings of the Buddha series translates the Suttanipata, a text that matches the Dhammapada in its concise power and its centrality to the Buddhist tradition.

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Bhikkhu Bodhi (translator)
2017
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Wherever You Turn Is the Face of God -- Camille Helminski

'Wherever You Turn Is the Face of God' -- talk by Camille Helminski, taken at the Baraka Retreat 2011

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Camille Helminski
2012
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Rumi and His Friends: Stories of the Lovers of God Excerpts from the Manaqib al-'Arifin of Aflaki

Originally written by Ahmad Aflaki, a devoted follower of the grandson of Rumi, this translation relates anecdotes of the life of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, his father, wife, sons, and daughter and his relationship with Shams of Tabriz and other close companions and disciples.

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Camille Adams Helminski, Susan Blaylock
2024
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Ninety-Nine Names of the Beloved: Intimations of the Beauty and Power of the Divine

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.

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Camille Hamilton Adams Helminski
2017
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Rumi’s Sun: The Teachings of Shams of Tabriz

Rumi’s Sun collects many lessons and discourses from Shams of Tabriz, the Sufi mystic and spiritual master who was the catalyst for Rumi’s awakening. Rumi’s son wrote, “After meeting Shams, my father danced all day and sang all night. He had been a scholar he became a poet.

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Shams of Tabriz
2017
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The Qualitative Science of the Heart: Kabir Helminski

Sufism is a discipline, a methodology, for enhancing and refining spiritual perception. The human being has a range of subtle faculties for knowing, the totality of which we can call the spiritual heart. The science of the heart is a science of qualities, not quantities.

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Kabir Helminski
2017
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Be Cleansed of Shallow Idolatries: Shaikh Kabir Helminski

Shaikh Kabir Helminski offers a sohbet (discourse & discussion) on July’s theme of the month: “Be cleansed of shallow idolatries; affirm the Real. Ya Haqq.

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Kabir Helminski
2019
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The Way of the Mystics

Howard Thurman tended not to speak of his own mystical inclinations, conscious that the word mysticism was likely to be misunderstood. And yet Thurman is commonly recognized as a mystic in the sense that he used the word to describe someone who had an acute experience of the Divine Life.

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Howard Thurman
2021
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A short interview with Baba Muktananda in Sydney Australia 1974

Baba Muktananda lays out the key teachings of the Yoga guided by a Siddha’s grace, in a brief but succinct interview in Sydney in 1974

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Muktananda
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2021
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The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition

The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world’s fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam.

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
2008
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