Wanted to share this poem by Rumi, a Persian poet from the 13th century CE. His short yet profound works have shaped Iranian/Islamic culture and influenced poetry around the world to this day. 🇮🇷
March 6, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Wanted to share this poem by Rumi, a Persian poet from the 13th century CE. His short yet profound works have shaped Iranian/Islamic culture and influenced poetry around the world to this day. 🇮🇷
January 14, 2026 at 9:18 AM
#RecommendedReading: “Women of Sufism – A Hidden Treasure” by Camille Adams Helminski
April 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
#RecommendedReading: “Women of Sufism – A Hidden Treasure” by Camille Adams Helminski
March 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
When we are aware of the abundance of Life, synchronous events unfold in the continuum of time; Love brings together what needs to be brought together.
Kabir Edmund Helminski
Kabir Edmund Helminski
March 30, 2026 at 3:01 AM
When we are aware of the abundance of Life, synchronous events unfold in the continuum of time; Love brings together what needs to be brought together.
Kabir Edmund Helminski
Kabir Edmund Helminski
Fanfare for an uncommon man: Aaron Copland is our Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 🎶Today, Donald Macleod traces #Copland’s roots and his first steps in music. Each weekday 4pm @BBCSounds Producer Ellie Ajao #AmericanMusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
January 5, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Fanfare for an uncommon man: Aaron Copland is our Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 🎶Today, Donald Macleod traces #Copland’s roots and his first steps in music. Each weekday 4pm @BBCSounds Producer Ellie Ajao #AmericanMusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Apart from all the outer attractions of life in the world, there exists at the center of human consciousness something quite satisfying and beautiful in itself, a beauty without features.
~ Kabir Edmund Helminski
Art by Manisha Parekh
~ Kabir Edmund Helminski
Art by Manisha Parekh
April 21, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Apart from all the outer attractions of life in the world, there exists at the center of human consciousness something quite satisfying and beautiful in itself, a beauty without features.
~ Kabir Edmund Helminski
Art by Manisha Parekh
~ Kabir Edmund Helminski
Art by Manisha Parekh
Pictures from Wardah Bookstore, in #Singapore, where they carry all my #books 😇
‘Wardah’ is an independent bookstore specializing in #Sufism 🙏🏽 ✨
Link: wardahbooks.com/pages/search... #booksky #Islam #poetry #poetrycommunity
Glad to share shelves with good company: Kabir Helminski & Paul Sutherland.
‘Wardah’ is an independent bookstore specializing in #Sufism 🙏🏽 ✨
Link: wardahbooks.com/pages/search... #booksky #Islam #poetry #poetrycommunity
Glad to share shelves with good company: Kabir Helminski & Paul Sutherland.
May 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Pictures from Wardah Bookstore, in #Singapore, where they carry all my #books 😇
‘Wardah’ is an independent bookstore specializing in #Sufism 🙏🏽 ✨
Link: wardahbooks.com/pages/search... #booksky #Islam #poetry #poetrycommunity
Glad to share shelves with good company: Kabir Helminski & Paul Sutherland.
‘Wardah’ is an independent bookstore specializing in #Sufism 🙏🏽 ✨
Link: wardahbooks.com/pages/search... #booksky #Islam #poetry #poetrycommunity
Glad to share shelves with good company: Kabir Helminski & Paul Sutherland.
I love Helminski! 🤍✨️
May 14, 2024 at 10:57 AM
I love Helminski! 🤍✨️
Moth: I gave you my life.
Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.
―Hazrat Inayat Khan
*
Don't pretend to be a candle, be a moth, and know the power hidden in serving.
―Mevlana Rumi
Mathnawi V: 411-414, #translation by Kabir Helminski
#Sufism #Islam #quotes #booksky
Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.
―Hazrat Inayat Khan
*
Don't pretend to be a candle, be a moth, and know the power hidden in serving.
―Mevlana Rumi
Mathnawi V: 411-414, #translation by Kabir Helminski
#Sufism #Islam #quotes #booksky
April 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Moth: I gave you my life.
Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.
―Hazrat Inayat Khan
*
Don't pretend to be a candle, be a moth, and know the power hidden in serving.
―Mevlana Rumi
Mathnawi V: 411-414, #translation by Kabir Helminski
#Sufism #Islam #quotes #booksky
Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.
―Hazrat Inayat Khan
*
Don't pretend to be a candle, be a moth, and know the power hidden in serving.
―Mevlana Rumi
Mathnawi V: 411-414, #translation by Kabir Helminski
#Sufism #Islam #quotes #booksky
Join Dianne and friends for Esoteric Living Room tomorrow Saturday, 2/1/25. This weeks topic is a Sufi book Living Presence by Kabir Helminski
Just come to 21 Market St, Northampton at 9:30. Or join on zoom! Link below!
www.splendorsolisbooks.com/page/the-eso...
#thirdspace #usa #esoteric
Just come to 21 Market St, Northampton at 9:30. Or join on zoom! Link below!
www.splendorsolisbooks.com/page/the-eso...
#thirdspace #usa #esoteric
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Join Dianne and friends for Esoteric Living Room tomorrow Saturday, 2/1/25. This weeks topic is a Sufi book Living Presence by Kabir Helminski
Just come to 21 Market St, Northampton at 9:30. Or join on zoom! Link below!
www.splendorsolisbooks.com/page/the-eso...
#thirdspace #usa #esoteric
Just come to 21 Market St, Northampton at 9:30. Or join on zoom! Link below!
www.splendorsolisbooks.com/page/the-eso...
#thirdspace #usa #esoteric
🤯 Early look! A “universal” style maneuver presented this year’s APTA conference by Dr. Janet Helminski, designed to create the angles necessary to treat ALL 3 canals on the same side for canalithiasis type BPPV. Would you try it? #bppv #vestibular
July 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🤯 Early look! A “universal” style maneuver presented this year’s APTA conference by Dr. Janet Helminski, designed to create the angles necessary to treat ALL 3 canals on the same side for canalithiasis type BPPV. Would you try it? #bppv #vestibular
'The #spiritual path wrecks the body
and afterwards restores it to #health.
It destroys the house to unearth the treasure,
and with that treasure builds it better than before.'
#poetry by #Rumi
#translation by Kabir & Camille Helminski
#art by Maïmouna Guerresi
and afterwards restores it to #health.
It destroys the house to unearth the treasure,
and with that treasure builds it better than before.'
#poetry by #Rumi
#translation by Kabir & Camille Helminski
#art by Maïmouna Guerresi
August 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
'The #spiritual path wrecks the body
and afterwards restores it to #health.
It destroys the house to unearth the treasure,
and with that treasure builds it better than before.'
#poetry by #Rumi
#translation by Kabir & Camille Helminski
#art by Maïmouna Guerresi
and afterwards restores it to #health.
It destroys the house to unearth the treasure,
and with that treasure builds it better than before.'
#poetry by #Rumi
#translation by Kabir & Camille Helminski
#art by Maïmouna Guerresi
Every human being is a word of God. What word are you?
- #ShamsTabrizi, tr. Refik Algan & Camille Adams Helminski
- #ShamsTabrizi, tr. Refik Algan & Camille Adams Helminski
October 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Every human being is a word of God. What word are you?
- #ShamsTabrizi, tr. Refik Algan & Camille Adams Helminski
- #ShamsTabrizi, tr. Refik Algan & Camille Adams Helminski
Jennifer Helminski is an artist, activist, and chaplain serving many with her gifts. Now she needs our help with some urgent health matters. Contributing would mean the world to her, and to me. You can learn more about Jennifer and her needs here: www.gofundme.com/f/lets-help-...
November 14, 2023 at 6:32 PM
Jennifer Helminski is an artist, activist, and chaplain serving many with her gifts. Now she needs our help with some urgent health matters. Contributing would mean the world to her, and to me. You can learn more about Jennifer and her needs here: www.gofundme.com/f/lets-help-...
🦋💗"Only as we begin to open to others in love can our isolated ego be transformed. An awareness of our interdependence with other human beings and with all of life provides the environment in which the seed of our souls can flourish." ~ from LIVING PRESENCE by Kabir Edmund Helminski💗🦋
July 17, 2026 at 4:49 PM
🦋💗"Only as we begin to open to others in love can our isolated ego be transformed. An awareness of our interdependence with other human beings and with all of life provides the environment in which the seed of our souls can flourish." ~ from LIVING PRESENCE by Kabir Edmund Helminski💗🦋
⏫ 👁️ Have you seen upbeat nystagmus in return to sit from a Dix-Hallpike test, when there was no nystagmus in the Dix-Hallpike itself? 💪Upbeat or upbeat/torsion towards involved ear upon sitting up may be attributed to short arm posterior canalithiasis BPPV (Helminski 2025). #bppv #vestibular
February 5, 2026 at 12:32 PM
⏫ 👁️ Have you seen upbeat nystagmus in return to sit from a Dix-Hallpike test, when there was no nystagmus in the Dix-Hallpike itself? 💪Upbeat or upbeat/torsion towards involved ear upon sitting up may be attributed to short arm posterior canalithiasis BPPV (Helminski 2025). #bppv #vestibular
Only as we begin to open to others in love can our isolated ego be transformed. An awareness of our interdependence with other human beings and with all of life provides the environment in which the seed of our souls can flourish.
~ from LIVING PRESENCE by Kabir Edmund Helminski
~ from LIVING PRESENCE by Kabir Edmund Helminski
An awareness of our interdependence with others | Friends of Silence
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July 17, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Only as we begin to open to others in love can our isolated ego be transformed. An awareness of our interdependence with other human beings and with all of life provides the environment in which the seed of our souls can flourish.
~ from LIVING PRESENCE by Kabir Edmund Helminski
~ from LIVING PRESENCE by Kabir Edmund Helminski
“While he dreams of running through the wilderness,
the waves are lapping so near.
While he dreams of the pangs of thirst,
the water is *nearer than his jugular vein.*”
Rumi, Mathnawi (Masnavi) IV, 3238-41, transl. Kabir Helminski
the waves are lapping so near.
While he dreams of the pangs of thirst,
the water is *nearer than his jugular vein.*”
Rumi, Mathnawi (Masnavi) IV, 3238-41, transl. Kabir Helminski
April 25, 2026 at 9:52 PM
“While he dreams of running through the wilderness,
the waves are lapping so near.
While he dreams of the pangs of thirst,
the water is *nearer than his jugular vein.*”
Rumi, Mathnawi (Masnavi) IV, 3238-41, transl. Kabir Helminski
the waves are lapping so near.
While he dreams of the pangs of thirst,
the water is *nearer than his jugular vein.*”
Rumi, Mathnawi (Masnavi) IV, 3238-41, transl. Kabir Helminski
The Jesus of your spirit is within you:
ask his aid, for he is a good helper.
- #Rumi, '#Mathnawi,' II, 450; 'Jewels of Remembrance,' tr. by #Helminski
ask his aid, for he is a good helper.
- #Rumi, '#Mathnawi,' II, 450; 'Jewels of Remembrance,' tr. by #Helminski
December 24, 2024 at 9:01 PM
The Jesus of your spirit is within you:
ask his aid, for he is a good helper.
- #Rumi, '#Mathnawi,' II, 450; 'Jewels of Remembrance,' tr. by #Helminski
ask his aid, for he is a good helper.
- #Rumi, '#Mathnawi,' II, 450; 'Jewels of Remembrance,' tr. by #Helminski
What a spiritual practice actually looks like:
December 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
What a spiritual practice actually looks like:
This is what I am:
sometimes hidden,
sometimes seen.
Sometimes of the faithful,
a Jew or Christian,
able to fit into any heart,
taking on a new face every day.
- #Rumi, quatrain 1325, tr. by #Helminski
sometimes hidden,
sometimes seen.
Sometimes of the faithful,
a Jew or Christian,
able to fit into any heart,
taking on a new face every day.
- #Rumi, quatrain 1325, tr. by #Helminski
October 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is what I am:
sometimes hidden,
sometimes seen.
Sometimes of the faithful,
a Jew or Christian,
able to fit into any heart,
taking on a new face every day.
- #Rumi, quatrain 1325, tr. by #Helminski
sometimes hidden,
sometimes seen.
Sometimes of the faithful,
a Jew or Christian,
able to fit into any heart,
taking on a new face every day.
- #Rumi, quatrain 1325, tr. by #Helminski
Kabir Helminksi: Rumi & the Mysterion - "Kabir Helminski is co-director, with his wife, Camille Helminski, of the Threshold Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge and practice of Sufism. He is the author of Living Presence and the translator of fo...
Kabir Helminksi: Rumi & the Mysterion | DailyGood
Kabir Helminski is co-director, with his wife, Camille Helminski, of the Threshold Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge and practice of Sufism. He is the author of Living Presence and the translator of four volumes of Rumis poetry, including Love Is a Stranger and Rumi: Daylight. His new book which we discuss on the podcast is The Mysterion: Rumi and the Secret of Becoming Fully Human. More in this conversation from Science & Nonduality.
www.dailygood.org
October 29, 2023 at 1:05 PM
Kabir Helminksi: Rumi & the Mysterion - "Kabir Helminski is co-director, with his wife, Camille Helminski, of the Threshold Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge and practice of Sufism. He is the author of Living Presence and the translator of fo...