I am neither Christian nor Jew nor Parsi nor Muslim.
I am neither of the East nor of the West,
neither of the land nor of the sea….
I have put aside duality
and have seen that the two worlds are one.
I seek the One, I know the One, I see the One, I invoke the One.
Divinity is the First,
Divinity is the Last,
Divinity is the Outward,
Divinity is the Inward.⁸
— Rumi
Mystics from the sacred traditions agree
that consciousness is fundamental.
This site, grounded squarely
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is about consciousness
and the mental nature of things.
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words of eternal wisdom,
often illustrated with present-day examples of spiritual healing.
You see yourself as a drop in the ocean,
but you are also the ocean in a drop.⁹
— Rumi
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[1] Dr. Tony Nader, One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness: Simple Answers to the Big Questions in Life, (Kindle, Aguilar Press, 2021), p. 140 • Photo by Elijah Hiett
[2] Peter J. Bowles, Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain, (University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 111 • Photo by Rohan Reddy
[3] Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, (Christian Science Board of Directors, 1934), p. 468 • Photo by Lauren Barton
[4] Perle Besserman, Teachings of the Jewish Mystics, (Shambhala, 1998). p. 60 / [Divinity] replaces “the Creator” and “Him” / The complete quotation reads:
The Creator is Himself, at one and the same time,
knowledge, the knower, and the known. . .
There exists nothing which is not united to Him
and which He does not find in His own essence.
He is the type of all being, and all things exist in Him
under their most pure and most perfect form.
• Photo by Friso Baaij
[5] Hebrews 11:3 KJV • Photo by John Rodenn Castillo
[6] II Corinthians 4:18 KJV • Photo by Shaunak Mirashi
[7] Psalms 33:9 JPS / [God] replaces “He” • Photo by Patrick Szylar
[8] Rūmī, quoted in William Stoddart, What Do the Religions Say about Each Other? Christian Attitudes towards Islam, Islamic Attitudes towards Christianity (San Rafael, CA: Sophia Perennis, 2008), p. 76; “I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr [Parsi], nor Moslem. I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea.... I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call. He is the first, He is the last, He is the outward, He is the inward” (Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Selected Poems from the Dīvāni Shamsi Tabrīz, trans. and ed. R.A. Nicholson [Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2006], pp. 125, 127) •
footnote found in Rumi’s Original Sufi Enneagram Introduction by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos https://ia800703.us.archive.org/7/items/RumisOriginalSufiEnneagram2/Rumi%E2%80%99s%20Original%20Sufi%20Enneagram%201.pdf • 06.29.2022 • [Divinity] replaces “He”
[9] Rūmī, quoted in Mark Perry, The Mystery of Individuality: Grandeur and Delusion of the Human Condition (Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2012), p. 105 •
footnote found in Rumi’s Original Sufi Enneagram Introduction by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos https://ia800703.us.archive.org/7/items/RumisOriginalSufiEnneagram2/Rumi%E2%80%99s%20Original%20Sufi%20Enneagram%201.pdf • 06.29.2022