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"For years my heart inquired of me"

By Hafiz
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This poem by Hafez reflects on the everlasting questions of truth and the meaning of life.

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2016 Sacred Practice: Sufi Practice with Shaikh Kabir Helminski

Shaikh Kabir Helminski is a Sufi master of the 700 year old Mevlevi order, the lineage of Jalaluddin Rumi. Sufism (tasawwuf) is the inner, spiritual, mystical dimension of Islam. Its aim is the development of Presence and Love.

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Kabir Helminski
2016
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Holistic Islam: Sufism, Transformation, and the Needs of Our Time

Islam once gave birth to a great civilization that respected religious diversity, freedom of conscience, and scientific thought, and Islamic knowledge contributed to the birth of humanism in the Renaissance.

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Kabir Helminski
2017
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The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation

In Sufi teaching the human heart is not a fanciful metaphor but an objective organ of intuition and perception. It perceives all that is beautiful, lovely, and meaningful in life—and reflects these spiritual qualities in the world, for the benefit of others.

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Kabir Helminski
2024
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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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Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

"Poetry," Jane Hirshfield has said, "is language that foments revolutions of being.

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Jane Hirshfield
2017
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Ledger: Poems

Ledger's pages hold the most important work yet by Jane Hirshfield, one of our most celebrated contemporary poets. From the already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance ("Let them not say: we did not see it.

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Jane Hirshfield
2024
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Rumi & His Friends: Stories of the Lovers of God: Interview with Camille Helminski

Watch a fascinating interview about 'Rumi and His Friends' with translator Camille Adams Helminski, author of Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure and 99 Names of the Beloved.

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Camille Helminski
2020
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Camille Adams Helminski with Tazeen on Transforming with Rumi

An in-depth conversation on how Camille fell in love with Rumi, the Sufi path and what it brought to her heart.

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Camille Helminski
2019
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The Light of Dawn: Daily Readings from the Holy Qur'an

These selections from the Qur'an—featuring gender-inclusive language—will appeal to non-Muslims and students of comparative religion as well as practicing Muslims and Sufis.

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Camille Adams Helminski
2000
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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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