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Australian economist Justin Wolfers issued a dire warning Saturday on the direction of the economy under President Donald Trump, equating the administration's freeze on releasing key economic data to steering a ship through fog wearing "blindfolds.

‘We’ve put the blindfolds on’: Economist warns of dire economic path under Trump

Australian economist Justin Wolfers issued a dire warning Saturday on the direction of the economy under President Donald Trump, equating the administration’s freeze on releasing key economic data to steering a ship through fog wearing “blindfolds.”“It becomes very hard to know how to steer the ship...

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 19h

2/Wazifa or a chosen attribute, which works as an autosuggestion, unconsciously day and night, soon even becoming second nature.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 19h

Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

120. The practice called Fikar helps to obtain mastery over one’s physical and mental conditions. This practice is a combination of rhythmic breathing together with the silent repetition of a

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 19h

10/ dissolving of the false self in the knowledge of the true self, which is divine, eternal, and all pervading. 'He who attaineth union with God, his very self must lose,' said Amir.

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9/he sees the same truth in each, and therefore he regards all as one. Hence he can realize the saying of Jesus; 'I and my Father are one.' The difference between creature and Creator remains on his lips, not in his soul. This is what is meant by union with God. It is in reality the
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8/There is One Truth, the true knowledge of our being, within and without, which is the essence of all wisdom. Hazrat Ali says, 'Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.' ... The Sufi recognizes the knowledge of self as the essence of all religions; he traces it in every religion, 9/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 19h

7/ What is it then in man which says 'I' and identifies itself with what it sees? It is not our head or foot which says 'I' nor is it in the brain. It is something that we cannot point out which identifies itself with all these different parts and says 'I' and mine.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 19h

6/reading, or discussion or argument, but a practical study of self. One questions one's own self: what am I? Am I a material body, or a mind, or something behind a mind? Am I myself or my coat? Is this object "me," or something different? Is this body my cover, or myself?
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 19h

5/with this enemy that will bring me light and raise me from the denseness of the earth.'

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When a person really wants to find the way, it is not very far from him. It depends on the sincerity of the desire to find it whether it is far or not. What is necessary for finding it is not much 6/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 19h

4/Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

The awakened soul looks about and asks: 'Who is my enemy?' While the unawakened soul thinks that it is his neighbor or his relation who is his enemy, the awakened soul says, 'It is my self; my ignorant ego is my enemy; and it is the struggle
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 19h

3/understand self -- and not nufs but the innermost being.

Sufis willingly surrender Heaven and Hell to God, considering it a joy when Allah is present even in the midst of Hell and a loss when Allah is absent even in the bosom of Paradise.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 19h

2/What are Heaven and Hell? They are the results of action, speech and thought -- they are *results* and not self-dependent. Every Hell and Heaven may be different, and the same condition can be Hell to one and Heaven to another. Therefore we cannot understand them until we 3/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 19h

Bowl of Saki for October 26, 2025

IT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT ONE'S SELF THAN TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH OF HEAVEN AND HELL. --Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 20h

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Sunday thought: We're winning

These are terrible times, to be sure. But we will triumph

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October 25, 2025

Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S.

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The Latest From The Ninth Circuit

Last night, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated, at least for now, Federal District Judge Karin Immergut’s first temporary restraining order, which prohibited the Trump administration from d...

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

2/ and one is better able to accomplish one’s duties.

JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

119. When the breath is chaotic every initiative fails, the memory slumbers and the will-power seems to have crept aside; whereas when the breath is harmonious, the mind is then under control,

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

11/renounce all that is in the world. But although that is a way and an important step which leads to true self-denial, the self-denial meant is the losing oneself in God.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

10/loses himself in the vision of God. In terms of the Sufis this is called fana, and it is this process that was taught by Christ under the name of self-denial. Often man interprets this teaching wrongly and considers renunciation as self-denial. He thinks that the teaching is to
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

9/or 'I understand life better than you?' As life unfolds itself to man the first lesson it teaches is humility; the first thing that comes to man's vision is his own limitedness. The vaster God appears to him, the smaller he finds himself. This goes on and on until the moment comes when he 10/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

8/another aspect of life in which he finds fullness, a greater satisfaction, and a rest which gives true peace.

Can he speak about this to his fellow men? And if he does, what can he say? Can he say, 'I am purer,' or 'more exalted than you'
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

7/which he finds to have almost covered his eyes. When we look at life from this point of view we find that an individual who claims to be a living being is not necessarily living a
full life. It is only a realization of inner life which at every moment unveils the soul, and brings before man 8/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

6/there are moments in his life, brought about by pain or suffering, when he experiences a state of mind which can be called soberness.
Hindus call this state of mind sat, which is a state of tranquility. Man then begins to become conscious of some part of his being
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

5/transaction.

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Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Man, absorbed from morning till evening in his occupations which engage his every attention to the things of the earth and of self interest, remains intoxicated. Seldom
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