Love's Drum: Sufi Views, Practices, and Stories
Love's Drum is an exquisite reflection on the nature of reality. With essays, practices and stories, the Sufi teacher Pir Elias Amidon leads us into the mysteries of nondual awareness, making clear its essence of unconditional acceptance.

The eleventh century Sufi Abdullah Ansari suggested that Sufism is simply another word for love. In Amidon's words, it is ”what unites us with all being and becoming, and yet no matter how vast and inconceivable love is, it's still the most intimate nature of our present experience.”

As he recounts events from his life, Amidon shows us the “open path” he follows—one of inclusion, lack of dogma, experiential understanding, and love in action. His life has been one of global activism in the areas of environmentalism, peace, and indigenous rights.

Through quotes from mystics, poets, philosophers, and spiritual teachers; simple practices for everyone; uncommon perspectives on human life; and wonderful stories illustrating depths of wisdom, readers can have their own experience of limitless awareness and hear the subtle beating of love's drum.
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Love's Drum: Sufi Views, Practices, and Stories
Love's Drum is an exquisite reflection on the nature of reality. With essays, practices and stories, the Sufi teacher Pir Elias Amidon leads us into the mysteries of nondual awareness, making clear its essence of unconditional acceptance.

The eleventh century Sufi Abdullah Ansari suggested that Sufism is simply another word for love. In Amidon's words, it is ”what unites us with all being and becoming, and yet no matter how vast and inconceivable love is, it's still the most intimate nature of our present experience.”

As he recounts events from his life, Amidon shows us the “open path” he follows—one of inclusion, lack of dogma, experiential understanding, and love in action. His life has been one of global activism in the areas of environmentalism, peace, and indigenous rights.

Through quotes from mystics, poets, philosophers, and spiritual teachers; simple practices for everyone; uncommon perspectives on human life; and wonderful stories illustrating depths of wisdom, readers can have their own experience of limitless awareness and hear the subtle beating of love's drum.
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Love's Drum: Sufi Views, Practices, and Stories

Love's Drum: Sufi Views, Practices, and Stories

by Pir Elias Amidon
Love's Drum: Sufi Views, Practices, and Stories

Love's Drum: Sufi Views, Practices, and Stories

by Pir Elias Amidon

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Love's Drum is an exquisite reflection on the nature of reality. With essays, practices and stories, the Sufi teacher Pir Elias Amidon leads us into the mysteries of nondual awareness, making clear its essence of unconditional acceptance.

The eleventh century Sufi Abdullah Ansari suggested that Sufism is simply another word for love. In Amidon's words, it is ”what unites us with all being and becoming, and yet no matter how vast and inconceivable love is, it's still the most intimate nature of our present experience.”

As he recounts events from his life, Amidon shows us the “open path” he follows—one of inclusion, lack of dogma, experiential understanding, and love in action. His life has been one of global activism in the areas of environmentalism, peace, and indigenous rights.

Through quotes from mystics, poets, philosophers, and spiritual teachers; simple practices for everyone; uncommon perspectives on human life; and wonderful stories illustrating depths of wisdom, readers can have their own experience of limitless awareness and hear the subtle beating of love's drum.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781591813057
Publisher: Sentient Publications
Publication date: 07/14/2023
Edition description: 1st Edition
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 5.58(w) x 7.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Elias Amidon is the spiritual director (Pir) of the Sufi Way (www.sufiway.org), a contemporary and non-sectarian inner school in the lineage of Sufi Inayat Khan. Pir Elias teaches and holds retreats on nondual spirituality and Sufism throughout Europe and the United States and is known for his direct and experiential approach to spiritual realization. For over two decades Elias led vision quests with his wife, Elizabeth Roberts, in the deserts of Utah, Spain, and the forests of northern Thailand. He also worked for many years in the field of peace and environmental activism in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and with indigenous tribes on land-rights issues. The author of several popular spiritual books, he lives in Crestone, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword9

Author's Note10

VIEWS

The History of Love12

Human Being13

So Close16

Impermanence and Love19

The Tree of Awe21

The Face that Lights the Candle23

God Is Not Something Already Made25

Children of Happiness27

Mystic Nonsense29

Springtime Reverie30

Tears in Heaven31

Love is the Highest Ground32

The Benediction of the Old Ones33

You Bring Rivers35

The Other Side of Death36

The Beloved Community39

PRACTICES

The Joy of Pausing42

Quietness44

Gentleness45

Selflessness47

The Place Where Nothing and Everything Meet49

Living in the Zero-Point-Now51

True Illusion53

The World's Mirror56

Good Work59

Befriending Unfriendliness61

Faith-Mind62

The Practice of Not Knowing64

The Practice of Living Presence66

The Middle of the Sky — A Practice68

The Welcoming Practice69

Bow Inside69

Consent to Silence69

Welcome Love70

World Worry72

Keep an Undefended Heart72

Find What Matters73

Do the Beautiful73

Sufi Tao75

STORIES

Morning Light: Five Scenes78

Upstate New York, USA78

Valparaíso, Chile78

Hill Tribe Village, Northwest Thailand78

Near Hyderabad, India78

Avignon, France78

Dawn80

One Love81

Easter Egg83

Snowing God84

Beauty Will Save the World85

Letter to a Newborn Girl87

A Hundred Years from Now89

How to Survive the Apocalypse91

A New Year's Vow92

A Prayer in the Militant Mosque — 201093

The Mosque93

The Battle93

The Prayer94

The Soul of the World – 202296

Autumn Light97

Love and Death98

I Only Want to Say100

Permissions101

About the Author103
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