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Paul Goble's World: Native Americans' relationship to all created beings
A Definition of the Perennial Philosophy
Every Branch In Me
: Who are we as "human" beings?
Noble Faces, Strong Voices: Exploring "The Spirit of Indian Women"
What is "Christian Spirit"?
The Sermon of All Creation: Christians on Nature
Where to look to "see God Everywhere"?
Interview with Frithjof Schuon - on Primordiality
How can we understand Native American traditions?
Books on Hinduism
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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
slide 9 of 11
“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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