Sufi stories | Soul Chocolate https://www.soulchocolate.org Chocolate for your soul Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:50:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.9 https://www.soulchocolate.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-SoulChocolateSiteIcon-32x32.jpg Sufi stories | Soul Chocolate https://www.soulchocolate.org 32 32 Learn from mistakes, even if you haven’t made them https://www.soulchocolate.org/learn-from-mistakes-even-if-you-havent-made-them/ Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:50:36 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=3219 THERE’S THIS WELL-KNOWN story of a bald man who, caught in a thunderstorm, huddles under a wood-apple tree for cover. The tree is of middling height with slender branches but is laden with fruit. It ...

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]]> Grappling with the enemy: Tips from a Persian slave https://www.soulchocolate.org/grappling-with-the-enemy-tips-from-a-persian-slave/ Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:17:52 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=309 Many of us who’ve reported to bosses that don’t like our face will empathise with this story of a hounded Persian slave. Like him, we have been target and victim, and we know what hatred ...

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]]> Gems from Rumi https://www.soulchocolate.org/gems-from-rumi/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 08:45:57 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=284 It’s quite incredible how simply Rumi, the much-loved Sufi mystic, explains complex feelings like anger, fear, envy and hatred, and even something like poison. As lay human beings, we think a thousand times when we ...

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]]> The fortune in a Turkish cobbler’s stars https://www.soulchocolate.org/the-fortune-in-a-turkish-cobblers-stars/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:23:33 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=230 Many of us may have shed a silent tear while watching the 2014 Hollywood film, The Fault in our Stars. In the film, a 16-year-old girl with metastatic thyroid cancer and a young boy with ...

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]]> Give some, get a lumpsum — a Sufi bargain hunt https://www.soulchocolate.org/give-some-get-a-lumpsum-a-sufi-bargain-hunt/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:01:12 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=203 My school principal, a feisty Irish nun, would often say that some people tended to look upon God as a ‘slot machine’. Instead of a Supreme Being in which one had unwavering faith, they would ...

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