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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 22h

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

JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

4/sound.

Darood: Sufis practice Dum of Darood to produce unification between themselves and others. This consists in vocal or mental repetitions of a specially selected sacred phrase a given number of times while facing the direction or the person concerned in the
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

3/speech and thought with the breath. This is easy, simple and sufficient, and for it no knowledge of metaphysics is necessary.

Darood: silent repetition of a wazifa (japa in Hindu) - Wazifa: a specially selected sacred phrase, Sufi mantra, symbols of primal
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

2/give no thoughts to self but all to God. Let one say, "What would God have me say, what would God have me think, what would God have me do?" But even this is unnecessary for there is always a feeling of ease if not of joy, when one practices Darood -- to harmonize all action, 3/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

Bowl of Saki for October 25, 2025

TRUE SELF-DENIAL IS LOSING ONE'S SELF IN GOD. --Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

This is not to say "I am" or "I am not", it is to
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

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Fenakkan (@fenakkan123) on Threads

Historians will note the failure to seat Adelita Grijalva, who got 70% of the vote in her district, as one of the most egregiously disgusting acts of naked partisanship and self interest in the histor...

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

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This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some...

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This is what happens when you poke the bear. This is why Trump isn’t suing the women who claim he sexually assault for defamation of character

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

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October 24, 2025

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has canceled House business again next week, meaning that over the last 17 weeks, the House of Representatives will have worked on Capitol Hill for just 20 days.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

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Gold, Greed and Cowardice

Trump's corporate and billionaire supporters are emboldening him as he pursues his path of destruction. History proves the future does not bode well for them.

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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 2d

The cost of meeting a child’s nutritional needs ranges between R826 and R1,085 a month, depending on their age, according to the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity Group (PEJDG).

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Child Support Grant cannot feed a child

Cost of meeting a child’s nutritional needs exceeds R560 grant

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 2d

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October 23, 2025

Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez of NBC News reported today that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s rush to get new recruits onto the street has meant they have pushed into their training program mo...

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 2d

Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

118. Tout comme le rythme est la nature du mouvement, l’inspiration et l’expiration sont la puissance derrière toutes les actions.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 2d

11/ the object of his realization. There are words of Hazrat Ali, saying that the one who knows himself truly knows God.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 2d

10/ naturally comes through lack of wisdom and understanding, and through the ignorance of truth.

Then the question arises: what is the way to attain the truth? Can it be attained through study? The answer is that the source of realizing the truth is within man - but man is
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 2d

9/sections called nations, races or communities. The reaction culminates into results still worse than the action. All wars, disasters and unhappy experiences that humanity has seen, are the outcome of this spirit of intolerance, division and separation, which 10/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 2d

8/particular communities. The consequence is that religion and the religious spirit has been enfeebled. This even has reacted upon the minds of others who stay away from religion and yet partake of that tendency towards difference, definition and separation which divides mankind into different 9/

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