Baha’i Tenets according to the Charlotte, NC Baha’i Community As a non-denominational minister in Atlanta, I often talk to others of different faiths and even coach individuals of various faiths. Last weekend I went to an interfaith event and met a…
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Most people know that Rumi was a Sufi and that the whirling dervishes are Sufis, but that about sums up their Sufi expertise. So, I’m going to provide you with a few other fundamentals, as I understand them. It is mystical: Sufism is not a separate sect of Islam, but an…
Rainer Maria Rilke’s God-infused Poetry speaks of our yearning for completeness Today’s entry is about Rainer Rilke’s poetry, which is spiritual, often close to mystical, and whose poems, translated and collated in Rilke’s Book of Hours, Love Poems to God by Anita Barrows sprang from what he described as “inner dictations”. Within…