pic by Martin Stranka      "When we see this moment as it truly is, we see something extraordinary. 'We' don’t feel the need t...

    You say, " I myself have Free-will, For my body is the horse and my soul the rider, The reins of the body are in the hands of the s...

     At long last the forest lay behind, Before stretched a desert, bleak and empty, Beyond, a mountain, dim in the dancing haze, Reaching u...

 Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī ~ Born: September 30, 1207, Balkh, Afghanistan    When Shams stole Rumi's Heart, The Wilderness of The Unkno...

I stirred in the small hours of the morning. Sensing a presence, I did not return to sleep, but ventured into the living room, apprehensivel...

        I remember one day I was suffering so much. Though my body was very ill, fortunately, I had come to see years prior, that the real c...

  Non-distinction speaks in silence. Words carry distinctions. The unmanifested has no name; all names refer to the manifested. It is useles...

  art Hege Elisabeth Haugen   No jewel is more radiant and clear than a mind free from judgments.  Here is the space where we can truly meet...