| “The experience of beauty paves the way for the experience of love.”

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“The Waves of the Ocean of Love” excerpt from Divan-e Nurbakhsh Poems of a Sufi Master Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 142)

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“Some Attributes of the Master” excerpt from The Path Sufi Practices Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 106)

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Excerpt from Bhagavad Gita A New Translation Stephen Mitchell (Page 195)

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“Jesus and The Antichrist” excerpt from Jesus in the Eyes of the Sufis Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 64)

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Excerpt from The Psychology of Sufism by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (Page 71)

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“Some Attributes of the Master” excerpt from In the Tavern of Ruin Seven Essays on Sufim by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh

“Some Attributes of the Master” excerpt from In the Tavern of Ruin Seven Essays on Sufism by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh

“It is said that, when asked how many ways there are from creation to God, Abu Sa’id replied, “According to one account, there are a thousand ways, according to another, there are as many as there are particles in existence, but the shortest, the best, and the easiest way to God is to bring comfort to someone else.”

It is in the same context that Rumi writes:

For God’s pleasure should you do your service;

What care have you whether you bear peoples’ praise or censure?

Or, in Sa’di’s words:

Service to people is the whole of worship:

The worship of God is not done

by rosary beads, robes of piety or prayer carpets.”

-from The Key Features of Sufism, Dr Javad Nurbakhsh

“Service to People is the Whole of Worship”