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This newsletter grows alongside the novel Knocking on Rumi’s Door and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the ideas, stories, and lived experiences that shaped it. Explore deeper questions about meaning, identity, and what it means to live in an awakened state in ordinary human life.
- Reflections on Rumi’s stories from the Mathnawi, approached as living teaching tales rather than doctrine
- Personal experiences from decades of spiritual practice, including the challenges, misunderstandings, and quiet transformations that rarely make it into inspirational writing
- Explorations of seeking versus certainty, and why the search for truth often asks more of us than we expect
- Thoughts on spiritual ambition, ego, belonging, and the temptation to turn meaning into something we can acquire or display
- Occasional insights from neuroscience and psychology
- Invitations and links to live workshops and classes for those who want to explore Sufi practices from a living tradition
This is not an academic study of Sufism, nor a manual of practices. It is for readers who sense that real change is often uncomfortable, slow, and humbling.
Rumi wrote for people who were willing to be unsettled.
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