Getting Through It

You’ll get through it all and you’ll become truly whole and even-more-amazing. This is your classroom, and you’ll graduate. The inner depth of you is boundless and is all-possibility, and already contains everything you need and everything that your experiences might have temporarily taken from you.

So find healing and whole-ing within, in and as your own depth — which you already know in one way, as your pain but perhaps not as your potential. The support you need for each next step will show up if you keep your head up and keep moving forward.

Seattle Inayati Lending Library

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Suggestions of Use

Bring one book, take one book

or

if you do not have an exchange book, please leave a donation.

Exchange books should reflect the spiritual orientation of the library.

To use the library please call Wajid or Avalon between 10 AM & 2 PM M-F

at 206 363 5803 – leave a message if we are not able to answer,                          or email – wajid.gallien@gmail.com

Radical Allowing

Real spiritual practice is inherently destabilizing, or there would be no change. Wherever energy hits resistance, that portion of the circuit heats up. That’s true in electrical wiring and it’s true in your ego structure and your body’s capacity to run energy.
 
So the question is not whether you’ll be uncomfortable or even have pain at times. Wherever you have resistance to change, you will hurt. The only question is what you’ll do with it.
 
Hint: You will not escape discomfort by staying focused on “Love & Light” in some abstract way. The only way through is to love and accept ALL your “arisings” and to breathe light in the form of spaciousness and allowing through your whole being, including your body. That is the real meaning of “astaghfirullāh” — radical non-judgment.

Witnessing Others’ Pain

People can only be where we are. They can’t be where they’re not. Unsolicited advice to someone in pain is actually rather insulting and judgmental.

Unless you’re someone’s spiritual guide, you are out-of-line in telling them that their predicament is their “story” or how they should rise above it. It may, in fact, BE a “story,” but if you’re not their guide or their therapist and thus have an explicit contract to intervene in their process — STFU.

If you’ve got some nonduality thing that’s actually worked for you and is authentic, let it show in an open and transparent presence to their process… and keep your mouth shut unless they ask for your thoughts. If it’s real, simply “witnessing” their process the most helpful thing you can do. If it’s just your egoic shtick, at least you won’t be adding to their wounding.

You’re welcome.

“Song of the Soul” — The Sufi Path of Ecstatic Embodiment

A Sufi Retreat, April 27–May 1, in Redmond WA

Further information here

This is a very ambitious event, designed and produced by the young people affiliated with SOI-Seattle.

But we need your help to pull it off — the most pressing issue being the need to keep it affordable and therefore accessible to those who need it.

We are asking for your financial support.

For those who wish to contribute financially to the success of this event, you can make a donation here. Your donations are fully tax-deductible.




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