Spirituality exists, to varying degrees and in different forms, in all cultures of the world. Underneath the different forms, however, there is the essence, the essential elements of spirituality that are very similar across all cultures and ages. A…
Sufism is primarily a path through the heart. There are many spiritual paths in the world. While they all seem to lead to a very similar place, the paths look very different from one another. Buddhist spirituality, for example, may end with tremen…
Heart-level, everyday spirituality shows up, in addition to romantic love, in our other human relations and interactions. If one had to identify one attribute that serves as the center around which the lives of people in this land revolve, it has to..
There is a tremendous capacity in the local psyche to accept things the way they are, to believe in deeper meanings and deeper reasons for things being the way they are. Without a need to know these deeper truths, for most people it is enough to bel…
One of the basic notions of the divine in Islam is Its presence everywhere and in everything. This means that no place or object is more sacred than any other. Many centuries earlier, when Moses came to the Jews, they were in the practice of worshi…
Pluralism and tolerance become possible when the spirit, the heart, the niyat becomes more important than the form or the words used to connect with God. That is how it had always been with spirituality in this part of the world. We recognized that…
In different ways, this is all we have been talking about till now. In this land, beyond all forms, there is a sense of the sacred in our everyday lives. Our popular spirituality is not other-worldly. It is life-affirming and world-based. A spiri…
When one sees the beauty of the world to be a reflection of the Divine, to add to that beauty becomes a sacred act. Again, without the mindfulness of it, this tendency to celebrate beauty, aesthetics, creativity has been woven into our everyday live…
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