Tribalism is the belief that one’s culture and values are superior, leading to loyalty towards one’s tribe at the expense of outsiders. This instinct has evolutionary roots—early humans depended on their tribes for survival. The amygdala, the brain’s fear center, reinforces this tendency, making us naturally cautious of those who seem different.

The Body Leads the Way not only challenges our dualistic framework of pitting the body against the mind, the material world against the spiritual realm, but it also invites us to embrace ritual as the liminal space between the two sides, as a place of meeting, imagination, and reconciliation, a place "that can interrupt habitual ways of living and open up a holy between."

The Sufi worldview is encapsulated in the Islamic creed: la ilaha illa allah. This, most basically, means: "there is no god except for God."
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"Fair enough," we might say, or at least the card-carrying monotheists among us, who nod like, "well yes, of course — we’ve been saying that for years, actually."

I said, “Look how suddenly love vanished again from my arms.”

You said, “The tighter you cling to dreams, the more night escapes you.”