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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 49m

2/torso in a perfectly synchronized movement.

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Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

116. The Sufis of all ages have expressed the Zikar with the words “La el la ha, el Allah hu” or “God alone exists,” repeated either in a spoken or a chanted meditation while gently rotating the

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 52m

9/ or belief should draw man closer to God, and that which makes man separate from God has no value.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 53m

8/philosophy. It is symbolizing the many lives in the one God, and expressed in the Bible in the words: 'In God we live and move and have our being'. When man is separated from God in thought, his belief is of no use to him, his worship is but of little use to him; for all forms of worship 9/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 53m

7/ The first life that existed was the life of God, and from that all manifestation branched out. It is a manifold expression of one life: one flower blooming as so many petals, one breath expressing itself as so many words. The sacred idea attached to the lotus flower, is expressive of this same 8/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 54m

6/breath fashioned by the mouth and tongue. In the capacity of the mouth breath becomes voice, and therefore the original condition of a word is breath. Therefore if we said: 'First was the breath', it would be the same as saying; 'In the beginning was the word'.
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 54m

5/through the nostrils. It is
this, alone which is generally meant when man speaks of breath.

When we study the science of breath, the first thing we notice is that breath is audible; it is a word in itself, for what we call a word is only a more pronounced utterance of
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 55m

4/of the mind, but man cannot even perceive that part of the breath that quickens the mind; only that felt in the body is perceptible, and to the average man it is not even perceptible in the body. He knows nothing of it, except what appears in the form of inhalation and exhalation 5/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 55m

3/Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Man breathes, but he does not breathe rightly. As the rain falls on the ground and matures little plants and makes the soil fertile, so the breath, the essence of all energy, falls as a rain on all parts of the body. This also happens in the case
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 56m

2/they proclaim some ideal, and
no matter what that state or condition, no matter what the form, meekness always removes obstacles from one's path. Thus prayer gives one strength by removing the weakness in one's own nature, which is the greatest bar to one's success.
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 57m

Bowl of Saki for October 22, 2025

ALL FORMS OF WORSHIP OR PRAYER DRAW ONE CLOSER TO GOD.--Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Because they lead away from self-ness;

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1h

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Adelita Grijalva Obliterates Mike Johnson's Excuses For Not Swearing Her In

Rep. Elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) spoke at a press conference today where she took apart Speaker Mike Johnson's excuses for not swearing her in and allowing her to take her seat in the House.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1h

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October 21, 2025

On this, the twenty-first day of the government shutdown, President Donald J.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

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What Can We Do Now?

What comes next, after No Kings 2.0

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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 1d

💀 Russia loses 1,130 soldiers over past day

Russia loses 1,130 soldiers over past day

Russia has lost 1,130 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day alone, bringing its total number of personnel losses to 1,132,200.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Seven of nine institutions approached by the Trump administration have now declined to sign new federal funding rules.

University of Arizona latest to turn down Trump’s policy demands

Seven of nine institutions approached by the Trump administration have now declined to sign new federal funding rules.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

Inner Teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan:

115. Zikar, also called Mantra Yoga in Vedantic terms, is a Kalma Kalam, meaning a meditative, rhythmic repetition of the sacred name of God.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

10/desire for service for the sake of God in whom we can all unite beyond the narrow barriers of race and creed.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

9/and tolerance.

By talking about it, by discussing and arguing it will not come, but by
self-realization, by making ourselves the examples of what should be, by giving love, taking love, and showing in our action gentleness, consideration and the
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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

8/religion against religion. Therefore today more than ever before there is a need for the realization of this philosophy.. What we need is not that all religions should become one nor all races; that can never be. But what is needed is undivided progress, and making ourselves examples of love 9/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

7/of civilization; both these things he has. What he lacks is the expression of the soul. He closes his door to his fellow man, he closes the shrine of the heart and by doing so he is keeping God away from himself and others. Nation is set against nation, race against race, 8/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

6/ contrary to love, tolerance and forgiveness, such as coldness, bitterness and ill-will, and a strong element of duality. The world is more upset today than ever before; in many ways man seems to go from bad to worse, and yet he thinks that he is progressing. It is not lack of organization or 7/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

5/Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

The soul is the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God lives within the shrine of the heart; this shrine can be closed or it can be open. There are some things in life that open it and some that close it. The things that close the heart are those which are 6/

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

4/according to the same principles and all are subject to the same laws. Wherefrom then do these lines of demarcation arise? It is from lack of knowledge and selfishness on one's part; they do not belong
to reality.

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JP @jpsalik.bsky.social · 1d

3/this difference? It is those differences perceived or conceived. Beyond conception and perception where there is love, there are no such distinctions.

All people were born in a similar manner; the bodies and minds of humanity have the same composition; emotions are caused
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