Shaykh Ibrahim's Podcast
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Sohbet 10/10/21: Time - kinds and handling
October 12, 2021 08:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBSend us a Text Message. How can we use time better? What is Time? Are there flavors of time? Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for ch...
Sohbet 031021: al Qawi, al Matin; Energy
October 04, 2021 11:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for choosing our podcast amongst all the millions available. If Support th...
Sohbet 260921: Focus and Sincerity
September 29, 2021 03:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for choosing our podcast amongst all the millions available. If Support th...
Sohbet 190921; Al Mughni- The Enricher
September 20, 2021 03:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBSend us a Text Message. al Mughni: the Enricher. Trust, Surrender, why Positivity; the importance of continuing to grow: The Alchemy of growth. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software ...
Sohbet 120921 Ash Shahid- the Witness
September 13, 2021 03:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBSend us a Text Message. The Prisoner sufi story Learning to be your own witness The GuestHouse by Rumi Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Than...
al Muqsit: The Equitable One (Sohbet 050921)
September 05, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBSend us a Text Message. We discuss some the inner meanings of al Muqsit, the one who distributes justice, and balances blame/forgiving; Expansion/Contracction; Joy/Sorrow; Health/Illnes; Power/Weakness; Poverty/Wealth. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the ...
Maturity and Respect
August 25, 2021 06:00 - 8 minutes - 5.84 MBSend us a Text Message. Mature Human Being An adult may not necessarily be a mature human being. When we speak of maturity we are referring, first, to someone who treats others with respect- all others. A tool that may be useful here is to consider is that you are the sole ambassador of your world. No one else knows what kind of universe you represent. The vast amount of personal experiences, relationships, observations and adaptations are unknowable to all but you. What a rich and varie...
Sohbet 080821 - Thinking and the Pandemic
August 11, 2021 05:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBSend us a Text Message. We discuss Conspiracy Theories, the definition, the three forms it may take. How to begin filtering Social Media, and applying Sufi methods for determining truth and falsehood. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be ...
Sohbet 180721
July 21, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Continuing talk about observation. Covid lockdown is a great time to do a retreat (halvet). A small step into the Qu'ran. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, softwa...
Observation (Haqqiqa)
July 19, 2021 02:00 - 11 minutes - 8 MBSend us a Text Message. Sufi Seeing: Observation (Haqqiqa) shaykh ibrahim ansari Seeing as a Sufi means getting enough of yourself out of the way so that you can actually observe Reality without your brain interfering. This means that first you have to get enough of your Nafs out of the way so that they're not interfering with what you are actually, really seeing. Some call this Being Present. This means that you are not lost in the regrets of the past, nor stuck in the swamp of some futu...
Sohbet 040821 - Inner and Outer Manifestations; Allah's Names; Prophets
July 06, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for choosing our podcast amongst all the millions available. If Support th...
Keeping It Simple
July 03, 2021 02:00 - 8 minutes - 6.12 MBSend us a Text Message. Spiritual systems often get bogged down in complexity. Whether it is the Enneagram or Chakras, Lata’ifa or Kundalini, Tarot or visualizing gods; any of these structure can easily become a distraction. It helps to consider these procedures as scaffolding to help with the real work. They are not the actual undertaking itself. They exist because someone found that it worked for that specific person. What often happens, though, is that the personally designed program bec...
Sohbet 270621 - Fear
June 30, 2021 02:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBSend us a Text Message. Fear In learning how to become a better human being, one of the major things we must learn to face, if we are to grow, is our fears. Some say it is important to face your fear. I think it is better to first assess the nature of the fear, to know its source. The goal is to determine the best way to overcome it. For example, some fears come from actual traumas: damage to the mind, the body, the heart. Different traumas require different procedures. Also, how long the...
Sohbet 200621 - Levels of Nafs, 'Tests'
June 25, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBSend us a Text Message. We review the 7 levels of Nafs known as the Maqams. Every level is a different station of perceiving Reality. We talk about being 'tested', which leads to Fear of Failure, and how to survive a test/ Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe ...
Sohbet 130621
June 14, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBSend us a Text Message. 1. Discussion about being a Sufi, Insan-i-kamil (An integrated and mature Human Being), and what it means to deal with the paradoxes of living. 2. Discussion of a Native American way of living: The Lakota Code of Ethics. LAKOTA CODE OF ETHICS 1. Rise with the sun to pray. Pray alone. Pray often. The Great Spirit will listen, if you only speak. 2. Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy - and greed stem from a lost soul....
Sohbet 060621 - Spiritual Evolution, Repentance
June 06, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Prayers by rote vs. doing with heart. Progress on the path. Repentance by Abdul Qadir al Jilani, Inspiration from poetry, music, dance, etc. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental...
Sohbet 160521 - How To Look for Signs
May 16, 2021 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBSend us a Text Message. We talk about inner and outer confirmations regarding signs; asking Allah for help; Wisdom, Choices, etc. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware t...
Sohbet 050521: al Jami- The Gatherer
May 10, 2021 01:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBSend us a Text Message. Discussion about Gathering one's internal and external parts, Surrender and Defense. Why some people die early or have diseases. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, ...
Sohbet 040321 - Friendship
March 17, 2021 03:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBSend us a Text Message. al-Wali - The Friend is a Name of Allah. How do we see that in this world? Who is a Friend? What is a Friend? How much can you trust someone? Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rent...
Sohbet 070321 - Post Pandemic Trauma
March 07, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBSend us a Text Message. Looking ahead to the aftermath of the pandemic. Many will be traumatized, some self-medicating sometimes leading to addiction; suicide; depression; PTSD, anxiety, grief. Preparing for this new life, it is important to stay grounded, positive, rested, and compassionate for those who will be working out various symptomsl Keep doing ' active listening', making objective assessment of relationships, and staying balanced will be vital to keeping mentally and socially hea...
Sohbet 280221 - Social Health
February 28, 2021 07:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBSend us a Text Message. In examining the idea of Insan-i-kamil - the practice of becoming an integral Human Being - we practice mental, physical, emotional health. There is also the necessity of viewing Social Health as a component of balance. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing ...
Continuing Understanding Forgiveness - Sohbet 14 February, 2021
February 14, 2021 22:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBSend us a Text Message. aa Ghaffur, al Ghaffir, al Ghaffar Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for choosing our podcast amongst all the...
Sohbet Feb 7 2021: Forgiveness
February 07, 2021 04:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBSend us a Text Message. The importance of Forgiveness on entering a Spiritual Path. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for choosing ou...
Sohbet (discussion) 31 January, 2021
January 31, 2021 06:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBSend us a Text Message. More details on how to let go. Discussion with Murids (students of Shaykh Ibrahim). Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. T...
Letting Go Ain't So Easy
January 27, 2021 06:00 - 10 minutes - 7.27 MBSend us a Text Message. Letting Go Ain’t That Easy Shaykh ibrahim Ansari Sung about in the animated feature Frozen, and easily tossed at us by armchair philosophers, therapists, religions and Spiritualists, is the concept of Letting Go. It is so easy to see another person’s attachments, hang ups, and abusive relationships, and then, with a wave of your hand, to tell them to drop it, to do something else, to ‘Let It Go’. But when it comes to our own personal work, when we discover a hab...
Staying Connected: sohbet/zikr 10-01-2021
January 11, 2021 00:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBSend us a Text Message. A discussion, first, about staying connected to Allah, analogous to the earth revolving around itself and the sun. How to apply this in life. The we do a short Zikr. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but i...
Expectation and Positivity
January 07, 2021 00:00 - 9 minutes - 6.33 MBSend us a Text Message. Expectation and Positivity By shaykh ibrahim ansari A Sufi is always looking for the source of things. So if we are going to talk about expectation, we start with the word: Expectation: from the Latin: An expectation is a belief about what might happen in the future, like your expectation to stay close with your best friends your whole life. The word expectation comes from the Latin word expectationem, meaning "an awaiting." As our spiritual guide, Murshid Taner...
Sohbet 3 Jan, 2021- Culture vs, Religion
January 03, 2021 06:00 - 55 minutes - 38.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for choosing our podcast amongst all the millions available. If Support th...
Being a Student
December 30, 2020 12:00 - 7 minutes - 5.27 MBSend us a Text Message. Learning to be a Student There are many books, paths and guides about how to look for the right teacher. Very few of these assistants explain how to be a good or better spiritual student. Or, shall we say, one who accepts spiritual teachings and learns to apply them. What does it take to be a ‘proper’ student? The first thing is to understand, as a student, is that you know all the wrong things, and that everything you have learned and think you know is not going...
On Becoming Human- Sohbet 6, December 2020
December 06, 2020 04:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBSend us a Text Message. Discussion about what it takes to become a Human Being. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for choosing our po...
On Failure: Sohbet 22-11-20
November 22, 2020 03:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBSend us a Text Message. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for choosing our podcast amongst all the millions available. If Support th...
Trust and Surrender - Sobhet 15/11/20
November 15, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBSend us a Text Message. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for choosing our podcast amongst all the millions available. If Support th...
Sohbet 1/11/2020 - on Inner and Outer; Resurrection
November 01, 2020 03:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBSend us a Text Message. We talk about having what it means 'to have two wings to fly'; and the idea of Resurrection. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to...
Sohbet: On thinking (251020)
October 25, 2020 22:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBSend us a Text Message. There is thinking with the head, with the heart, and the combination of both. Thinking with your head means that, when the cultural and familial paradigms are subtracted, one is able to analyse deductively, inductively and reflect on past experiences and apply the knowledge gained from those experiences . To think with your heart means to engage a spiritual connection. One of the purposes of this path is learning how to return to that place where truths are reveale...
Sohbet: Sentimentality
October 25, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBSend us a Text Message. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for choosing our podcast amongst all the millions available. If Support th...
Sohbet 18 October 2020 - on Listening to Your heart
October 18, 2020 03:00 - 40 minutes - 28.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Listening to your heart; this time of isolation; working for the Divine. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you fo...
Living a Spiritual Life
October 05, 2020 09:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Consider the Prophets - all prophets - to be our examples of how a human being can work and grow spiritually. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardwa...
Discussion September 20, 2020
September 22, 2020 04:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBSend us a Text Message. A wide-ranging spiritual (Sufi) discussion about Spiritual abuse, connecting with prophets and saints, levels (maqams) of awareness, etc. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, s...
Staying Positive
August 23, 2020 09:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBSend us a Text Message. Quotes from Rumi, Hafiz, scientific assistance in healthy neurochemistry. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you f...
Maximum Capacity
August 18, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 52.3 MBSend us a Text Message. Sohbet (Spiritual Teachings discussion) Based on readings from Abdul Qadir al Jilani's book- "Secret of Secrets". Continuing with Chapter 4 - 'On Knowledge', in this section, the birth of the Child of the Heart. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services...
Trust - Sohbet of 9 August, 2020
August 09, 2020 06:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Based on a reading from 'The Secret of Secrets' by Hadrat Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani; Chapter 11: 'The Joy of Being Good and the Misery of the Rebel'. Discussions and questions about basic Sufi Teachings. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believ...
Gratitude - sohbet of July 26, 2020
August 07, 2020 06:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Being thankful for what you have, rather what you don't have keeps you positive, allowing you to be able to help others positively. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, service...
Sohbet - Lessons From the Pandemic
July 14, 2020 01:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBSend us a Text Message. A free-ranging spiritual discussion regarding what we learn and what we can apply in our New World of Sheltering in Place. Recorded July 12, 2020 by the Ansari Sufi Order of Australia. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message sh...
What is a Sufi?
June 20, 2020 03:00 - 11 minutes - 8.02 MBSend us a Text Message. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for choosing our podcast amongst all the millions available. If Support th...
Nasruddin Stories: Part 2
June 19, 2020 07:00 - 11 minutes - 7.89 MBSend us a Text Message. These are Sufi teaching stories. Your job is to decode them to find the spiritual information. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this ...
Reflection
June 16, 2020 03:00 - 9 minutes - 6.35 MBSend us a Text Message. Reflection Allah’s Prophet (peace & blessings upon him) said, “A moment’s reflection is worth more than a year of worship; a moment’s reflection is worth more than seventy years of worship; a moment’s reflection is worth more than a thousand years of worship.” Reflection was important to the Prophet. It would be incumbent upon us to understand what it means and how to apply it properly. I speak from my own personal understanding. If you have a different view of this...
Nasruddin Stories: part 1
June 05, 2020 03:00 - 7 minutes - 5.48 MBSend us a Text Message. A beginning collection of the teaching stories of Mulla Nasruddin. Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners, We appreciate you, and are happy to share our Sufi Message. Your donation will help support our Sufi Centre in Sydney where we offer Zikr, Sohbet, spiritual counselling and healing services. We believe the message should be free, but it costs equipment, rental, services, software and hardware to get this to you. Thank you for choo...
Emotions and Feelings
May 25, 2020 11:00 - 11 minutes - 8.08 MBSend us a Text Message. Emotions and Feelings Ibrahim ansari Hey, how are you feeling today? Me? I’m feeling kind of nostalgic today. We talk about feelings all the time, but what is the difference between an emotion and a feeling? Well, I have my own idea about these concepts. I tend to think of feelings as a bank of meters, whose needles are gently swaying back and forth between strong and weak. “It’s warm; I feel sad; I feel nostalgic; she bugs me; I like him; this is a nice place; I’m...
On Death
May 22, 2020 00:00 - 8 minutes - 6.14 MBSend us a Text Message. On Death This apocalyptic year of the pandemic, along with being bestowed with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and chronic back pain, certainly helps keep the awareness of death constant. S/He is always leering at me over my shoulder, keeping tabs on how I go about my day. Will I do something stupid? Will I eat something beyond my digestive ability? After all these years of preparing for and contemplating death, I’ve come to an incomplete acceptan...
Inspiration
May 14, 2020 11:00 - 9 minutes - 6.51 MBSend us a Text Message. Inspiration To inspire means to breathe in. Not with your upper chest, but with your diaphragm, the part below your ribs. Breathe in. As you hold it, reflect on this miracle. You are filling your lungs with mostly nitrogen, some oxygen, and as you release your breath, you are giving the plants your carbon dioxide. Every breath is a miracle. That should be the first and only inspiration you need. That you keep breathing is a miracle, a blessing, a treasure and gift r...