What Sufi U brought to my business

Management Consultant Samah Ross was surprised at how her experience shaped her career Ten years ago, when Samah Jo Ann Ross graduated from the Jaffe Institute–the precursor to UOS–she planned to transition away from her career as a business consultant and...

A Return to Love: Year 4 of the UOS Master’s Program

By Elise Salam “I love the University. I believe in it,” says Page Zahra Janeff of Austin. Page has walked the Sufi path for over a decade and now re-enters the healing school of the Shadhuliyya Sufi Tariqa for the second time. “It’s different...

How to Open Your Heart After it has Been Hurt

In the last article on how to protect your heart, you learned that the solution for protection is not to build walls, but to live in the deep place in your heart that holds your essential goodness and purity and is connected completely to God. But as you know, unless...

Protecting Your Heart From Pain

Have you ever held a newborn child?  You can feel the purity radiating off of them.  They are still very close to God.  We can feel the deep place in them that holds the throne of God.  The newborn has not yet experienced the hurts and frustrations of the world that...

How to Heal a Broken Heart – the First Steps

At some point in life, each of us will experience a broken heart. The feeling of brokenness might come from rejection by a loved one. It may come from deep disappointment that things in your life are not working out in a way you would like. It may come from the loss...