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The 2021 program, “Beloved Community,” continues through June 6, 2021. Click HERE for more information.

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Notes, “Mother Water.”

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Many of us find ourselves in the position of having to care for someone in their time of need. A group of members of the Sufi Way have come together to offer a confidential service — Caring for Caregivers — to all who find themselves in a caregiving role and who would appreciate some support. These supporters are all people who work within a caring profession — psychotherapists, counselors, ministers, hospice workers — and they have had extra training to help them with this supportive role. To learn more, click HERE.

Now Available

MUNAJAT: Forty Prayers

by Pir Elias

The forty prayers in this little book were originally inspired by the Munajat — “whispered prayers,” or “intimate conversations with God” — of the 12th Century Persian Sufi, Abdullah Ansari. Intimate prayer like this suits the sensibility of Sufis — Ibn Arabi, Rumi, Hafez and many others became masters of it. On the one hand praying in this manner is love-talk evoking the nearness of divine reality, and on the other hand it can’t help but go mute as it points to the unspeakable majesty of the Real. It’s a form of prayer that endears at the same time that it is in awe. Click here to order.

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“It’s a sheer mystery to me how Pir Elias Amidon condenses so much profound wisdom into every sentence he writes. Free Medicine moves with a living, poetic potency that brings timeless, imperturbable transcendence into every moment of our personal lives. I wish I could keep turning its pages forever!”

— Peter Fenner, Ph.D., author of Radiant Mind and Natural Awakening

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“Look, and it can’t be seen.
Listen, and it can’t be heard.
Reach, and it can’t be grasped.

Approach it, and there is no beginning;
Follow it, and there is no end.
You can’t know it,
but you can be it,
at ease in your own life."

— Lao Tzu