What is happiness? Is it attainable? Often we think happiness as an exuberant joy that would have us doing somersaults and cartwheels on the sidewalks. That might be attainable from time to time, but it’s certainly not sustainable, nor is it meant to be. We are...
Did you ever play the game Chutes and Ladders when you were a youngster? When we’re young, it seems like a fun friendly game with a relatively low level of competition. We’re striving to reach the finish line, hoping to land at the ladders and climb ahead, and praying...
Just today, I was speaking with a new friend. You might relate to her story. She has known all her life that there is more to this existence than the mundane physical reality. And with all that is happening in the world today, she can no longer deny her awareness of a...
Quick announcement before today’s article: We’re just 4 weeks away from the start of the Spring Masters of Divinity program. If you are interested in the Masters of Divinity program, please connect with one of our enrollment specialists to begin your...
Do you have a song in your heart? Perhaps a love song for your Beloved? Every human heart experiences some sense of separation, and in the separation brews a yearning that draws us to that for which we yearn. It is the connection that we seek. Sometimes we sense the...
HOW DID THE ROSE EVER OPEN ITS HEART AND GIVE TO THE WORLD ALL ITS BEAUTY? IT FELT THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF LIGHT AGAINST ITS BEING. OTHERWISE, WE ARE REMAIN TOO FRIGHTENED. ~ HAFIZ Remembering the delicate young flowers of our world today. The Children. Do...
Transformation can be uncomfortable, be it personal or global transformation. Yet if the caterpillar doesn’t shed its skin it cannot become a chrysalis. If it does not spend the full required time in the chrysalis phase, it does not become a butterfly. When I was at...
Sidi Shaykh Muhammad al-Jamal is the spiritual guide of UOS. Many of us have taken him as our personal guide as well, and in doing so, we took a Promise. Our promise includes to be honest, to be sincere, to walk straight, to follow the way of the prophets, and to...
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE THE FULL SERIES It is in the divine wisdom that the world lives and evolves through dynamic contrasts. We learn through both prophets and physicists that the universe manifests through breaking the perfect unity and symmetry of the...
Happy New Year! We hope you had a blessed holiday weekend and rang in 2017 with love, joy and hope. The new year brings with it rapid change and interesting times, where uncertainty and chaos can threaten to overwhelm us. Many are speculating and questioning whether...
