The Knowing Heart
A Sufi Path of Transformation

Kabir Helminski

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In Sufi teaching the human heart is not a fanciful metaphor but an objective organ of intuition and perception. It is able to perceive all that is beautiful and meaningful in life - and to reflect these spiritual qualities in the world, for the benefit of others. Every human heart has the capacity and the destiny to bring that world of divine reality into this world of appearances.

The Sufis have been educators of the heart for some fourteen centuries. Their teachings and methods are designed to help us awaken and purify the heart, to learn to listen to our deepest knowing. In The Knowing Heart, Kabir Helminski presents the Sufi way as a practical spirituality suitable for all cultures and times - and offers insights that are especially valuable for our life in today's world. In cultivating a knowing heart, we learn to experience a new sense of self, transform our relationships, and enhance our creative capacities. Most important, we learn how to meet the spiritual challenge of our time: to realize our sacred humanness.

The Last Barrier
A Journey into the Essence of Sufi Teachings

Reshad Feild

Foreword by Coleman Barks

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Reshad Feild, one of today's best-known Sufi teachers in the West, tells the compelling story of his journey into an ancient and powerful spiritual path. A hard-to-put-down adventure, this is a travelogue in more ways than one. Starting as a London antique dealer, Reshad meets the enigmatic Sufi teacher, Hamid, who leads him into mystical Turkey, a land of whirling dervishes and the tombs of great saints, but also a world that opens into the divine love that lies at the heart of all. On his journey Reshad is forced to confront his own inner weaknesses and falsehoods. Hamid and the events of his search plunge him again and again into confrontation with the limits of his own being, enabling him to shed the false conditioning that lies between himself and his true nature.

This twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Coleman Barks, the foremost modern interpreter of the Sufi poet Rumi, as well as a new preface by the author.

Living and Dying with Grace
Counsels of Hadrat 'Ali

Translated by Thomas Cleary

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Living and Dying with Grace is a book of aphoristic Sufi teachings on how to make one's way in the world - especially on how to bring spiritual insight to the affairs of daily life. Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam, contains a vast body of knowledge concerning the inner development of the complete human being. Among the greatest of Sufi masters, Hadrat 'Ali (598-661 CE), cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, is regarded as a paragon of compassion and virtue and a master of both exoteric and esoteric knowledge. He was not only a great warrior, statesman and scholar, but also a devoted husband and father.

Success in this life, 'Ali teaches, is bestowed on those who maintain generosity, intelligence, perseverance, integrity, and calm reflection. As for success in the hereafter, 'Ali says, "God, the Glorified, admits to Paradise anyone, at will, for truthfulness of intention and goodness of innermost thoughts."

This book contains four hundred of Hadrat 'Ali's teachings, showing how people can use the everyday realities of their lives to cultivate wisdom and well-being, both temporal and eternal, offering a path to living and dying with grace.

The Heart of Sufism
Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The next time you begin to feel like the world offers little more than varieties of pain inflicted by a stumbling humanity, I'd like to suggest that you pick up this volume and read even one page. You will find yourself instantly lifted into a much truer vision and reality. Hazrat Inayat Khan's words are drenched in Love, just drenched in it. I had never read anything about Sufism before finding this book - what I found here was so deeply caring, so warm in its exquisite beauty, so profound in understanding and wisdom that my eyes filled with tears of gratitude and relief. Here was a man who knew where Home was and who invited us all to join him there. The solid core of Love that he presents as the Heart of Sufism is both inspiring and healing. Sufism teaches that a practicing Sufi does well to study as many other religions as possible, as all contain truth for the people to whom they were given. Those of us who are not practicing Sufi's will find it a gift to learn more about this path of love and beauty.

Hazrat Inayat Khan, mystic and musician, set out from India in 1910 to introduce Sufism to the Western world. This anthology brings together excerpts from the multi-volume collected works based on his direct oral teachings to students in America and Europe. It provides an illumintaing glimpse into a many-faceted diamond of wisdom, uniting a wide variety of subjects - mysticism and metaphysics, music and peotry, education and the art of personality, spiritual training and practice - within the universal embrace that is Sufism.

The Inner Life
Three classic essays on the spiritual life by the beloved teacher who brought Sufism to the West

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The Man who makes God his beloved, what more does he want? His heart becomes awakened to all the beauty there is within and without. To him, God is all-in-all; to him, God is everywhere. If he goes to the Christian church or to the Jewish synagogue, to the Buddhist temple, to the Hindu shrine, or to the Muslim mosque, there is God. In the wilderness, in the forest, in the crowd, everywhere he sees God.

- From The Inner Life

The joy of this discovery of God everywhere and in all things infuses the writings of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), the Indian teacher who first brought Sufism - Islam's mystical tradition - to the Western world. Through Sufism's popularity has continued to grow in the time since he lived and taught, and many other wonderful teachers have come and gone, Inayat Khan's special ability to convey the essence of the Sufi path remains unsurpassed.

This book contains three of Inayat Khan's essays, taken from among his voluminous collected works: "The Inner Life," "Sufi Mysticism," and "The Path of Initiation and Discipleship." It also includes a previously unpublished essay, "The Path of the Mystic," and selected aphorisms.

The Shambhala Guide to Sufism
An essential introduction to the philosophy and practice of the mystical tradition of Islam

Carl W. Ernst, Ph.D.

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My encounter with this book was like going to a new and distant land and finding everywhere I looked something new and alive and beautiful. Where The Heart of Sufism presents its spiritual core, The Shambhala Guide to Sufism offers us its cultural heritage and the everyday life of a practicing Sufi. The book is written with such liveliness and enthusiasm that I regretted each time I had to put it down, thought about it through the time I couldn't be reading, and picked it up again with undiminished eagerness. This is one of the rare books that I regretted finishing because I wanted it to go on and on. A Sufi is said to do well to study other religions, because truth comes in different forms to different people. Those of us who are not Sufi can study Sufism in the same spirit - and be rewarded with cascading beauty, love, life.

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Teachings of Sufism

Selected and translated by
Carl W. Ernst, Ph.D.

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Sometimes God says, "You are Me,"
and sometimes He says, "I am you."

Sufism has been defined in different ways by scholars and religionists: some call it the mystical tradition of Islam, others the universal heart of all spirituality. But for many mystics it can only mean one thing - that when you love God, you die to yourself and live in Him. The readings in this book, ranging from the tenth to the twentieth century and mostly deriving from the Middle East and India, offer a glimpse into the living world of the Sufis.

Teachings of Rumi

Andrew Harvey

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How can I - or anyone else - ever cease being astounded
That He whom nothing can contain is contained in the heart?

-Rumi

The sublime words of Rumi illuminate the heart and mind, conveying an experience of Divine Love that is striking and revolutionary. Her is a rich compendium of the best of this celebrated mystic.

Jelalludin Rumi (1207-1273) led the quiet life of an Islamic teacher in central Anatolia (modern Turkey) until the age of thirty-seven when he met a wandering dervish named Shams Tabriz - through whom he encountered the Divine Presence in a away that utterly transformed him. The result of this epiphany was the greatest body of mystical poetry the world has ever seen, and the establishment of a spiritual movement that would eventually stretch from Africa to China, enduring to our own day.

This collection of versions of Rumi by Andrew Harvey contains some of the master's most luminous verse, along with selections from his lesser-read prose works, with the aim of presenting a balanced view of his teaching that includes both the high-flying love of God and the rigorous path of discipline essential for those who seek it.

Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam

Henry Corbin

Translated by Leonard Fox

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Available now for the first time in English are two essays by Henry Corbin, the eminent French scholar of Islam. Although his primary interest was teh esoteric tradition of Islam,Corbin also was a lifelong student of the theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg.

The first essay, "Mundus Imaginalis," or "The Imaginary and the Imaginal" clarifies Corbin's use of the term he invented, mundus imaginalis, or "the imaginal world." This important concept appears in both Swedenborgian and esoteric Islamic spirituality.

The second article, "Comparative Spiritual Hermeneutics," compares teh revelation of the internal sense of the sacred books of two distinct religions, Christianity and Islam. Corbin considers Swedenborg "the prophet of the internal sense of the Bible."

The Light of Dawn
Daily Readings from the Holy Qur'an

Selected and Rendered by
Camille Adams Helminski

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I am somewhat embarassed to admit that until the tragedy of 9/11/01, I had never read anything from the Qur'an. Also, I had read only a little bit about it, period. The gaping hole in my knowledge about many of my brothers and sisters in the world became very apparent on that sad, sad day. I found this introductory version of Mohammed's Great Book - it is a a tremendous introduction to the content and intent of the sacred text itself.

I have been reading it bit by bit ever since - and finding new insight and meaning each time. I have also discovered the beauty and wisdom that has inspired millions of people around the world. In its essence, the Qur'an challenges us to become fully human, conscious of God throughout all creation. I am so glad that I have finally gotten to know this way of seeing the World!

I should add that, although this The Light of Dawn does not present the full Qur'an, I am unable to get from its contents to the fanatical deeds of Sept. 11. I should perhaps further add that I am unable to get from the words of Jesus Christ to either the Inquisition or the Crusades, either.

The Light of Dawn is a beautiful book. I hope it will engender the understanding that is the foundation of respect and love.