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03/01/2025

Behind Me—dips Eternity—
Before Me—Immortality—
Myself—the Term between—

—Emily Dickinson

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02/14/2025

“Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.”
― Eric Micha’el Leventhal

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04/01/2024

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03/03/2024

SUFI issue #106 features a profoundly moving conversation about the relationship between spirituality and holistic medicine. EzDean Fassasi interviews renowned chiropractor Dr. Alan Sherr about his practice of facilitating flow in the body, and how “belief in something greater than oneself” is what enables the various tools of holistic medicine to bring about mental and physical recovery.

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02/23/2024

SUFI’s new Winter 2024 issue is dedicated to the exploration of the Unity of Being, a core principle in Sufism. The concept of one being, and everything existing as a manifestation of this one being, is illustrated by the analogy of water – individual bubble, drop or wave, all are water but in different forms.

In the discourse by Dr. Alireza Nurbakhsh, master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order, he questions how one can know that the Unity of Being is true, and how one can experience it? He points to love as “both the evidence for its reality, through our capacity to love all creation, and also as the means of actualizing it, through love of another.”

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02/07/2024

SUFI #106 is now available!
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12/24/2023

SUFI’s 2014 winter issue explores timeless Sufi teachings about the mystical world view as passed on over centuries by masters of the path. Alireza Nurbakhsh, current master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order, offers an intriguing discourse on spiritual yearning (talab), a state of yearning for the truth that drives an individual toward self-discovery and spiritual perfection. He emphasizes that this yearning is a gift from God and not voluntary – one is struck by this
state as he or she realizes his or her spiritual shortcomings, and becomes driven to travel the spiritual path. Gaining insight into our individual qualities, positive and negative, plays a role in how we feel and act toward others, and is a pre-prerequisite for being granted the state of talab. In contrast to our pursuit of material comfort, “The real fulfillment in life…lies in talab because it is only through the state of yearning that we can find lasting rest and peace. “

Explore more about this paradoxical Sufi teaching and read the full discourse from the SUFI archive, now available free to anyone. Subscribe to SUFI to enjoy the full array of articles, stories, poetry and more in each issue.

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12/05/2023

In SUFI Issue 105, Dominique Butet and photographer Olivier Adam describe an extraordinary annual “Jang Gonchoe” or “Winter Debate” that takes place in India, near where the Buddha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree. In 2022, 500 women from Tibetan Buddhist nunneries in Tibet and India convened to spend days in rigorous debate about points of Buddhist philosophy. After years of study, each hoped to pass an examination and be designated a “Geshema“ – a person having achieved a level of excellence in Buddhist Philosophy and status as teacher and community leader. Historically available only to men, nuns now enthusiastically pursue Buddhist studies assisted by the Tibetan Nuns Project, begun in 1987, and with the unfailing support of the Dalai Lama.

Experience the dedication and joy of these nuns as they learn through the study of Buddhist philosophy how to help others - “a way of transformation and a part of profound spiritual practice.”

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11/26/2023

"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."
- Dalai Lama XIV

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10/17/2023

SUFI’s 2014 issue on the environment featured an exploration of spiritual ecology by Les Sponsel, Professor of Ecological Anthropology and award winning of author of Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution.

In his article, Professor Sponsel points to the relationship between our spiritual condition and the ecological crisis of the planet, and describes how spiritual ecology encompasses a “dynamic arena of thought and action at the interfaces of religions and spiritualities on the one hand, and on the other ecologies, environments, and environmentalisms.” He highlights examples of individuals who integrated spirituality and environmental activism, serving as pioneers of spiritual ecology, such as St. Francis of Assisi, Henry David Thoreau, and Al Gore.

Read more about “spiritual ecology…a response to [the] dire need for the survival, welfare, and flourishing of Earth, including humankind.” The full article from the SUFI archive is now available free to anyone. Subscribe to SUFI to enjoy the full array of articles, stories, poetry and more in each issue.

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