“The House of Sincerity and Purity” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 145)

“Friendship” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 82 Winter 2012 (Page 8)

“General and Particular Friendship with God” excerpt from Sufi Symbolism Volume Three Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Pages 66-67)

“Friendship” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 82 Winter 2012 (Page 8)

“Aphorism 2” from Discourses on the Sufi Path (Page 92)

Excerpt from The Prophet Khalil Gibran (Page 64)

“Resumption of the story of Zo’l-Nun” excerpt from Rumi The Masnavi Book Two A New Translation by Jawid Mojaddedi (Page 86)

“The Experience of Beauty and the Sublime” excerpt from SUFI Magazine Issue 94 Winter 2018 (Page 10)