Archive for Sufism

Art of the Spirit Site Revisions & New Mystic

A bit of business and then some beauty.
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This week, I added a tag cloud to my sidebar. Over the next few days I’m going to be »»

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More Via Negativa Poetry

Love came and emptied me of self,
every vein and every pore,
made into a container to be filled by the Beloved.
Of me, only a name is left,
the rest »»

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Via Negativa in Poetry

Here are some poems I love on the via negativa, finding God in absence. For more posts on this look here:

Rumi:

I have lived on the lip
Of insanity, »»

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Sufi Poetry

This an interesting site with translations of Sufi poetry. Sufi poetry, in my experience, comes closest in words to portraying the experience of ecstatic love and union »»

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Emanation & Return: Remembering Lex Hixon

When I was studying at the School of Sacred Arts in the early 1990s, I had the great fortune to meet Lex Hixon. He was an amazing »»

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