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Noble Faces, Strong Voices: Exploring "The Spirit of Indian Women"
The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity
World Wisdom's Spiritual Classics series
Where to look to "see God Everywhere"?
The Sacred Worlds Series
Spiritual Poetry
Ernest Thompson Seton explains "The Gospel of the Redman"
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What is "Christian Spirit"?
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William C. Chittick explores "The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi"
“The idol of your self is the mother of (all) idols.”
—Rumi
An Introduction
Who was Rumi?
Sufism and Islam
God and the World
Universal Man
The Fall
The Trust
Union with God
The Nafs
Knowledge and Method
The Limitations of Rational Knowledge
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“If ye pass beyond form, O friends, ‘tis Paradise and rose-gardens within rose-gardens.
When thou hast broken and destroyed thine own form, thou hast learned to break the form of everything.”
—Rumi
“A theme to which Rumi often returns is that the ego or carnal self (
nafs
) is a veil which prevents man from knowing his own true nature… The true ‘monotheist’ (
muwahhid
) sees with the vision of gnosis that all things depend absolutely upon God and derive their total reality from Him. The ‘associator’ or polytheist (
mushrik
), however, suffers from an optical illusion whose source is his attribution of reality to his own individual self. As long as he has not escaped from the limitations of his ego he cannot help but act as if phenomena were independent realities, detached from God.”
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