spiritual insights on religion, social justice and comparative theology
All right, so I’m going through a mid-life crisis, so I got this idea to freshen things up. I told my nieces and nephews I’m reinventing myself, so I’m looking for a new moniker for the new year. Sometimes you hear a name and you think, “Damn, that dude’s got it going.” Or as the … Continue reading What’s in a Name? by William Klein
The great Sufi mystic Rumi was in the throes of a dervish ceremony called a sema; a ritual dance ceremony that he created. A fellow Muslim came to him, knocked on his door and told him it was “time for evening prayer.” Rumi without missing a beat or twirl said, “We are praying.” Every major religion has … Continue reading A Dervish of Prayer by William Klein
“Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make sense any more.” Rumi I love the quote posted above. A friend of mine used to quote the first two lines … Continue reading The Space Within
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