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The Primacy of Life and Consciousness
by Navid Zaidi All things are one. —Heraclitus, On the Universe (540-480 BC) Classical physics proposes that the universe was, until rather recently, a lifeless collection of particles bouncing against each other. Life and Consciousness arose by an unknown process … Continue reading
Nasruddin’s Walk: How to Fail Better
by Modaser Shah “We are still not where we are going, but we are still not where we were.”—Natasha Jasefowitz in 2500 Years of Wisdom by D.W.Brown “Menschen werden als Originale geboren, die meisten sterben als Schablonen.”—Kierkegaard in Ganzheitlicher KALENDER … Continue reading
A Sufi Thought for the Week (MLK)
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Contributed by Kamran Zafar
Puzzled and/but Aware
by Modaser Shah Idries Shah says, “Religious thinking requires one to become worthy of something; magical thinking tries to cause or to create effects.” (Knowing How to Know) The Buddha is reported to have said that life was not a … Continue reading
Posted in Modaser Shah, Original Essays, Original Photography
Tagged Mullah Nasruddin tales, philosophy, Photography, Sufi teachings
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A Sufi Thought for the Week (Angelou)
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” …Maya Angelou (American Poet) Contributed by Kamran Zafar
God and Dice: What Would Nasruddin Say?
by Modaser Shah “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” —Joseph Chilton Pearce Mullah Nasruddin, as can be seen in the Sufi tales relating to his mis-adventures, embodied the creative life in this sense; he was … Continue reading
A Sufi Thought for the Week (Mandela)
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear”… Nelson Mandela (1918- 2013) Contributed to this blog … Continue reading
Rumi, Nietzsche and Superman
by Navid Zaidi It is said that comparisons are extremely unpleasant. However, it is strange how the same idea affects different cultures differently and in the history of thought it is the points of contact and departure that attract our … Continue reading
A Sufi Thought for the Week (Rumi)
Low in the earth I lived in realms of ore and stone; And then I smiled in many-tinted flowers; Then roving with the wild and wandering hours, O’er earth and air and ocean’s zone, In a new birth, I dived … Continue reading
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