by Matthew Wright What is the path of dervishhood?  One definition could be “the cultivation of our essential humanness.”  Latent within each human being are capacities for sensing and expressing realities such as beauty, gentleness, relationship, unity, truth, and love.  To live from and manifest these possibilities is both the potential and the high calling […]

by Shaikh Kabir Helminski (An excerpt from Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self) Sufism is a way of life in which a deeper identity is discovered and lived. This deeper identity, beyond the already known personality, is in harmony with all that exists. This deeper identity, or essential self, has […]

by Matthew Wright Image credit: The Ta-Sin of Self-Awareness in Tawhid II, Amar Dawod, 2013 Sufism is rooted in the vision, language, and practices of Islam.  Within the Mevlevi Order, however, one does not have to become a Muslim in the outer, sociological sense (“converting” from one religion to another) in order to practice Sufism.  […]