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Why we should raise our words, not our voices

November 4, 2019 By Carol Cassara 3 Comments

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We live in such uncivilized times, don't we? I'm beginning to really despise the way social media have become a bully pulpit for uncivilized discourse. The politics of today are really shameful. Not that politics has ever been clean, but today so much is acceptable that would have been called out at . . .

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Dance

January 24, 2016 By Carol Cassara 7 Comments

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Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you're perfectly free.         ~Rumi, the original whirling dervish . . .

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Is heaven a spiritual country club?

February 26, 2014 By Carol Cassara 22 Comments

Religions are divisive and quarrelsome. They are a form of oneupmanship because they depend upon separating the “saved” from the “damned,” the true believers from the heretics, the in-group from the out-group.  - British philosopher Alan Watts I've never been big on exclusion and judgment and I . . .

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Filed Under: Soul School Tagged With: Afterlife and Death, Any Religion, God, mystic poetry, rumi poetry, Spirituality, sufi mysticism

In the house of lovers

April 14, 2013 By Carol Cassara Leave a Comment

Oh, that Rumi. Such a romantic! Oh that this were true. Maybe it is. But chances are if the floor were dancing and the walls singing all the time it would drive us stark raving mad. There is love and there is LOVE and there is lOvE What does it mean to really love another . . .

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Filed Under: Soul School Tagged With: Love, mystic poetry, rumi poetry, sufi mysticism

About judgment

June 28, 2012 By Carol Cassara Leave a Comment

It's a shame we don't meet there more often these days,  but we don't.We can't seem to find that field. Today we can pick and choose our information sources  so we need never be exposed  to anything that doesn't already fit our preconceived notions  of whatever.  We can sit . . .

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Filed Under: Soul School Tagged With: mystic poetry, Opinions, Politics, rumi poetry, sufi mysticism

Longing’s not all it’s cracked up to be

December 13, 2010 By Carol Cassara 2 Comments

There are lovers content with longing.I'm not one of them.- RumiMe, neither.It's true that I'm guilty of livingin either the futureor the past.But when it comes to love,I want it in the here and now.Longing may be the stuff of poets andwriters, but it's much over-rated. . . .

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