We want to be closer to God. We need physical or emotional healing. We search for our life purpose. In our seeking, many of us have gone to workshops and trainings, and tried different techniques and methods. You likely experienced a change or something...
A few years ago, my mom and I were on a rare trip together. Our relationship had been pretty difficult all along. Finally, after more than 50 years, I was struck by a realization of what it was like for her to have me as her daughter! I felt remorseful about...
We wanted to share with you a short message from one of our previous students of UOS. You may or may not know Mark Silver (UOS grad and founder of Heart of Business, Inc.), but he learned Sufi Spiritual Healing techniques and applied them to his personal life and in...
Here is a Sufi saying - Mind speaks to mind. Heart speaks to heart. Soul speaks to soul. What is meant by this and why does it matter? Communication happens on different levels and it can either be love-centered or love-deprived. Your level of communication - whether...
Every day we are involved in conversations where we think we know what is being said, and yet we hear it differently from the way the speaker meant it. We don't generally know that this is happening. We usually just take away the meaning we heard and leave it at that....
Did you ever wake up one day and find yourself "out of love" with someone? This can happen not only with our spouses, but also with co-workers, friends and other relationships. What is it that destroys love and connection? Over the past forty plus years of working...
If I've learned one key to loving relationships over the last forty plus years, it's definitely this - You can't be right and be in the love at the same time. It's simply not possible. Why? Let me explain with a little scenario between a parent and teenage child:...
Sufism is about awakening to God’s reality NOW vs. the hereafter. The focus is on the experience of God rather than the intellectual understanding of God. The only way to focus on the experience is through ‘tasting.’ Tasting is experiencing the Divine reality. It’s...
Sufi guide, Shaykh Muhammad Said al-Jamal ar-Rifa’i ash-Shadhuli, affectionately called Sidi, is teaching across the United States over the next several months. Sidi is one of the teachers at the holy al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Sidi delivers a message of peace,...
I came to the Sufi University, not looking for Sufism and really had no idea what I was getting into. At the time, I had been sober for 7 years (it's been ten now), was used to looking deeply at myself from my mind, and had explored several energetic healing paths...
