The human heart is a mirror... The heart wants a constant care to keep it from getting rusted, and the rust may be produced as the mere touch of water can produce rust upon iron. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Love is the source and animating force of the universe. The heart is the wellspring and font of this love. And yet....Without constant care, the mirror-like quality of the heart becomes obscured: sweetness changing to sourness, tenderness to hardness, love to bitterness. All of us know these movements in our own lives.

As a remedy to these eroding effects the retreat offers a path for engaging in the ennobling labor of polishing. Fortified by sincerity, vulnerability, and the flame of love, we’ll learn to turn toward the dense rust producing sources within us. When purified through disciplined effort, patience, and the touch of grace, the natural goodness and transparency of the heart reveals itself.

The retreat merges extended periods of meditation, mindfulness, and silence with an intimate form of dialogue termed sohbet. Within the Sufi tradition, sohbet, is a gesture of deep listening, a subtle dialogue initiated through words that carries one beyond words into the depth of the heart. A highly experiential, communal endeavor, this retreat is an invitation to bear witness to ourselves and one another as spiritual companions joined together to heal and transform the mind and polish the mirror of the heart.

The course is open to all. Silence will be maintained outside of the meditation hall during the entire retreat. Attendance for the entire retreat is a prerequisite for participation.

"Why, tell me, if what you seek does not exist in any place, do you propose to travel there on foot?
The rode your self must journey on lies in polishing the mirror of your heart."
Hakim Sanai
[Translation D.L. Pendlebury]

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