/lit/ - Literature

>>14775468
I know. It makes me mad brvder.

>>14695280
The focus of the school is helping people to be more centered in their immediate experience, for a number of reasons. Such that God is in all things, including our experience that is happening right at this moment. This is our point of contact with the divine, or what is usually referred to as our true nature or the true nature of everything.

Being in the moment can have quite a few obstacles and so our approach is to allow the obstacle and to inquire in to it. By bringing our attention to anything in our experience, whether it's boredom, hatred, loving, expansion, etc we understand it further, allow it loosen, and allow what is contained in it to be revealed, which is always something quite sacred and important.

A lot of the time the barriers we experience are psychological and were formed in childhood in our relationships with our parents, siblings, society, etc so there's quite a bit of modern psychology, especially psycho-dynamic theory incorporated to understand how our parents have shaped us and how to live less compulsively in our daily lives.

It takes quite a bit of influence from Sufism: studying the Lataif, using Sufi poetry as a point of reference, the idea of our emotions and obstacles being the next step in uncovering ourselves and Truth. It's called Ridhwan.

>>7334269
Herman Hesse's books can be both uplifting and soul-searching.

A good combination, imo.

>mrw finding happiness through understanding pain

>>7286171
In Cupid/Eros and Psyche, Eros is somewhat unattainable. Psyche can't look at his face.

Though eventually he is and Union is found.

Check it out, it's a beautiful story.