Shifting from the work of “the Work” to the Fruit of the Work. I remember being at our summer retreat about twenty years ago. A person mentioned to Hameed during Q&C that they appreciated how their relationship with their significant other was a great venue […]
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Perspectives on why we incarnate (reincarnation?). Why do we have physical, human lives? What’s the purpose of human existence? These are questions many ask. Many say our physical life is a school. Many times this seems to be associated with morality, learning the difference between
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Do enneagram personality type tests work? The enneagram of personality types has exploded in popularity around the world. In the past thirty-five years, dozens of books have been published on the enneagram of personality types as well as thousands of articles and blog posts. There
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The True Spirit of the Enneagram With his recent contribution to the greater body of enneagram wisdom, The Keys to the Enneagram, A. H. Almaas continues to add to the repository of spiritual wisdom of the enneagram. Spiritual wisdom of the enneagram provides us with
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Love Quotes from the Works of A. H. Almaas Love is central to and at the heart of human experience. Every moment of life and activity is an expression of love. One hundred and seven quotes about love don’t begin to scratch the surface. All
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‘Tis the Heart that Puts the Human in Humanness Acceptance, gratitude, and forgiveness are uniquely human – as far as we know. They are part of the treasure of the heart and essential qualities of true nature. Let’s look at their individual and collective contributions
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Without curiosity, there is no life! What is curiosity? ALL KNOWLEDGE IS CONNECTED TO ALL OTHER KNOWLEDGE. THE FUN IS IN MAKING THE CONNECTIONS. – Arthur Aufderheide There are three truths in the above quote: In contrast to the way the comparative mind “knows,” the
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Jack entered the crowded room as he entered every room, quietly. It didn’t matter, conversations stopped, heads turned, as his presence filled the room. How many novels have you read with lines like that? Or, his presence radiated aliveness and vitality, or her presence was
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HU – the Essence of Essence, Secret Name of God, Ground of Existence ‘He’. Hu stands for the Essence Itself. It stands for ‘He Who is Absent’. Dhikr of ‘Hu’ is one of the most powerful words of Remembrance. When the lover is annihilated in
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How does your body feel about you? Most of us, at times, have issues or judgments about our bodies. We spend much of our lives in our heads looking down at or into our bodies as an object and making decisions about them all the