We heard from Salih Kent that the travels to Jerusalem went smoothly, and Sidi will be buried today in Jerusalem just after the traditional Friday mid-day prayer. ‘Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raaji’uun Surely we belong to Him, and to Him we shall return....
Want to catch you early, so tomorrow you can be with family, hopefully having a wonderful time. I want to share with you a couple of reasons to make every day a day of Thanksgiving, as well as every meal. This world we live in can sometimes be an intense place....
I’ve just returned home from a beautiful weekend retreat at the Shadhiliyya Sufi Center in Pope Valley, California – the center where the UOS classes are held. The weekend was intended to be a time to sit with our guide, Sidi, and say farewell before he leaves the US...
As we’re preparing for a new Year 1 class to begin, I was thinking about the weeks before my first school session. Of course there’s a story! It makes me smile and bow my heart in gratitude every time I think about it. At the time, I was working for IBM in...
The Beatles Got it Right: All you need is love. Love is all you need. The poet Rumi says, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers that you have built against it.” I like to add to that, “and then...
I received this question from one of our community members the other day, and I thought it would be a great one to explore this week. When to use compassion, when to employ “tough love” – are they mutually exclusive? I posed the question to a few of...
