My Favorite Jesuit

In a letter to his Cambridge friend Robert Bridges, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote: "I'm afraid some great revolution is not far off. Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist. Their ideal bating some things is nobler than that professed by any secular statesman I know of...Besides it is just.--I do not mean the means of getting to it are. But it is a dreadful thing for the greatest and most necessary part of a very rich nation to live a hard life without dignity, knowledge, comforts, delight, or hopes in the midst of plenty--which plenty they make...."

 

Conversations with a Dervish

 

Ibn Abbad of Ronda

                                        Spiritual Alchemy. 

                                        Ronda

Jam Saqi: A Red Dervish

                                                       Read his obit here.

Grateful Dead - Comes A Time

Georgia Blues: Blind Willie McTell

Samarkand

The many-roomed mansion of the heart.

 

Bob Marley - Natural Mystic

Gnosis is my Stock-in-Trade