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Islamic Heart Work
Like a poem. A gift from the heart of Omid Safi. Whose written word set fire to my own heart: In a cool mountain night, I put on a few pieces of wood on the fire, and stood there watching … Continue reading
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Oh, that Today you would hear His Voice!
Awe and wonder strike an open heart : In England there had been nothing like Taos Mountain. The field offered an unobstructed view of the mountain. I’d never seen anything like it, an awesome massif, a clump of peaks, an … Continue reading
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Heart Work
As the Rabbis put it (Berakot 29b): Prayer which has become so set that it no longer permits of creative newness, has ceased to be devotional. Isaiah 43.19 records these words of Yahweh: I am about to do a new … Continue reading
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Heart Advice from a Hasidic Rabbi
Seek the Sacred Within the Ordinary Seek the Remarkable Within the Commonplace Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
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Taking Everything to Heart
Who burns with the bliss And suffers the sorrow Of every creature Within his own heart, Making his own Each bliss and each sorrow: Him I hold highest Of all the saints. Bagavad Gita
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Why do the protesters keep saying “Allahu Akbar”?
A beautiful discussion at the website, LIBYA 17th February 2011, starts with the question above and an answer by CanadianLibyan who wrote: The words “Allahu akbar” have, unfortunately, acquired a sinister connotation. All they mean is “God is great” or … Continue reading
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Veneration of the Name
Think of the importance of “naming”. Of what a name means. How we rely on that as way of referring to someone or something. As a means of “calling” or “being called”. Veneration of “Ha-Shem” (The Name) is already a … Continue reading
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Akathist of Thanksgiving
Image of a heart open to God: Prayer opens us up to the Divine Heart within. A place from which prayer wells up from deep within us – even unbidden. This is a Mystery. The Presence of Holy Mystery – … Continue reading
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Were not our hearts burning within us
The numinous speaks to our hearts through story, events, sacred writing, sacred icons, though holy people and holy places, but also through what seem to be ordinary events, events which suddenly, mysteriously, disclose the transcendent in our midst. And having … Continue reading
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The Voice of the Lord Strips the Forests Bare
Lift up your hearts: We lift them up to the Lord:
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Heart Streams in Dry Land 