A fly sat
on a straw
on a puddle of donkey piss
full of pride
it lifted up its head:
”I am the captain of this ship
master of this ocean!”
- Rumi
Translated and emitted by Omid Safi
Radical Love. Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Traditions
What’s your Puddle of Piss?
My Blog – Articles
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Creative, Innovative Solutions are NOT a Brand
Branding. This one concept can have the GREATEST impact on your business, but is often tragically overlooked. The term itself is thrown around but is misunderstood and rarely is its value realized and its potential realized in business. Effective branding communicates meaning, value proposition of your business, service, product, person or logo. A brand connects your clients to your business Continue Reading...Read more -
Wholeness: Faith in Real Life
I appreciate what Rohr has to say in the quote below. I believe it is important that our spirituality, our faith life, is fully grounded in the here and now, in the concrete of our real life. Healthy Christian spirituality brings wholeness - we are created as physical, concrete beings who are also at the same time spiritual beings. To Continue Reading...Read more -
Love is…Humble
Brennan Manning once said that true humility is not a poor opinion of yourself, rather, no opinion of yourself. So it is with authentic love. Love simply loves unaware that it is actually loving - it just does. Love is unselfconscious. Consider a lamp. An illumined lamp gives light not because it is trying to give light but Continue Reading...Read more
