Table of Contents
Winter 2018
Issue 94 explores the experience of beauty as a path to spiritual presence and transformation.
Alireza Nurbakhsh reflects on how the sublime cultivates divine love, while Mark Nepo and Mary Gossy emphasize silence, surrender, and the courage to live beyond the limits of thought.
Jawid Mojaddedi revisits Rumi’s expansive legacy, and interviews with David Godman and Nipun Mehta highlight both direct transmission and the power of compassionate service.
The issue also honors the late Sufi poet Mehri Habibi Parsa, while CultureWatch features Ubuntu, book reviews, and reflections on meaning.
Poetry throughout the issue brings together voices of longing, vision, and contemplative stillness.
Discourse
- The Experience of Beauty and the Sublime — Alireza Nurbakhsh
Articles and Essays
- Always Part of Something Larger — Mark Nepo
- “Unoccupied Prayer” and Divine Love — Mary Gossy
- Rumi Beyond Balkh and Konya — Jawid Mojaddedi
Interviews
- Change Yourself, Change the World — A Conversation with Nipun Mehta; interviewed by Russell Leung and Rita Fabrizio
- Just Be — A Conversation with David Godman; interviewed by Reid Pierce
- The Path According to a Sufi Poet — Mehri Habibi Parsa (1931–2017); interviewed by Safoura Nourbakhsh
CultureWatch
- The Art of Ubuntu — Sholeh Johnston
- Book Reviews — Philip Edmondson on The Power of Meaning: Finding Fulfillment in a World Obsessed with Happiness by Emily Esfahani Smith; Gregory Mize on Things that Join the Sea and the Sky by Mark Nepo
Poetry
- My Moon — Alireza Nurbakhsh
- Milled — Roger Loff
- The Art of Seeing — Chris Ellery
- When I Asked — Gregory Angus
- Winter Stars from the Mountain Hut — Chris Hoffman