Rusty Ring

One lonely commandment: If you don't like it, don't be it. (Photo courtesy of Danh Đãnh and Unsplash.com .)

A lifetime sitting with the central tenet of Islam has led me to accept it. You must submit. Islam means submission in Arabic....

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This song holds a special place in my heart, because it held a special place in my practice when I first became a monk. As is often the...

Faith is quiet. Doubt is loud. Faith is supple. Doubt is rigid. Faith is calm. Doubt is angry. Faith faults self. Doubt fault...

A traveller paused in a forest clearing beside a stream, where a dervish sat meditating. Sipping from his waterskin, he saw the dervis...

Zen is famous for its koans, those quirky, inscrutable Chinese stories that make no sense but are somehow profoundly true. My own devotio...

While on a trip to another village, Nasrudin lost his favourite copy of the Qur'an. Several weeks later, a goat walked up to Nas...

"We learned a number of lessons, the most important of which is this: the real battlefront is not between the West and the Musli...