About Kabir Helminski

Kabir Helminski is the author of Living Presence, The Knowing Heart, Loves Ripening, The Pocket Rumi and more. He has been a Shaikh of the the Mevlevi Order since 1990, and co-director of The Threshold Society (Sufism.org). He also writes for The Times of India, Tikkun, and The Huffington Post.

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Unite with the Living

Listen to the voices of the holy in our breasts. By... read more

What Do We Need a Spiritual Path For?

Excerpted from the forthcoming In the House of Remembering, The Living Tradition... read more

Ramadan, Ancestors, & The Lightness of Being

Your inner being is a sanctuary, cleanse it with the light of... read more

“God appears in the one in whom poverty...

Memories of Murshid Suleyman Dede: My first encounter with a Sufi Murshid... read more

How Beauty Evokes Love in Sufism

I have been fortunate during my spiritual training to have been inspired... read more

Beauty as a Way of Life

There are so many manifestations of beauty in life. This has always... read more

Be Humble in Love; Be Bold in Loving

Sooner or later those who travel the path of God will encounter... read more

Endeavor to Make God Your Companion in Every...

A transcribed sohbet of Shaikh Kabir, from the forthcoming book The Living... read more

The Strangeness of Sufism

Islam began as something strange, and so it will become again one... read more

Muhammad and Rumi on Sexual Harassment

It is a time of reckoning for men around the world who... read more

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