#Unity of being

[shakir2]

Sufism, unity of being, unity of witnessing. تصوف, وحدةالوجود, وحدةالشهود 

These interconnected topics often evoke interest among scholars and laypeople alike. These are hard to grasp due to pre-disposition, pre-conception, or a lack of basic knowledge. Therefore, I tried to explain these concisely and in the easiest way possible.  Sufism is usually pursued under the vigilant guidance of a Sufi-Master/Murshad through a rigorous regimen over a long period, traversing…

[smilepilled]

if your (trans-)feminism inherently excludes any minority group on the basis that one of their immutable traits makes them inherently evil, you are not a transfeminist. you are LARPing as one, but you aren't doing jack shit that has to do with feminism.

this includes trans people, nonbinary individuals, trans guys and transmascs, trans gals and transfems, intersex people (with or without any trans identity), gnc individuals, black trans people, brown trans people, asian trans people, indigenous trans people— and any combination of these.

if you exclude any group of people from your transfeminism or activism, you are not an activist. you are trying to seem like a good person while clinging desperately to your own hateful, putrid ideals. get better and over yourself

[eyeoftheheart]

“As the mystical side of Islam developed, it was a woman, Rabi‘a al-Adawiyya (717-801 c .e .), who first clearly expressed the relationship with the Divine in the language we have come to recognize as particularly Sufic, by referring to God as the Beloved. Rab‘i’a was the first human being to speak of the realities of Sufism with a clear language that anyone could understand. Though she experienced many difficulties in her early years, Rabi'a’s starting point was neither fear of hell, nor desire for paradise, but only love. Her method was love for God because “God is God; for this I love God . . . not because of any gifts, but for Itself.” Her aim was to melt her being in God. According to her, one could find God by turning within oneself. As Muhammad said, “He who knows himself knows his Lord.” It is love that carries and sustains us through this process. The door of Sufism will finally open only with Love, because—though knowledge may be important and can assist in our discrimination along the way and may help us to reach the threshold—it is ultimately through Love that we are brought into unity of Being.”

(from the introduction)

Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure by Camille Helminski

It is interesting that Camille Helminski begins her book about women in Sufism with the Hidden Treasure Hadith. My intuition has always been that the Hidden Treasure symbolically points to the Divine Feminine, comparable with the Symbolism of the Holy Grail in the Western Esoteric Tradition.

“The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all.” 

~ Ibn Arabi

Rumi says something similar in his Masnavi:

“She (woman) is a ray of God, she is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, you might say she is not created.”

[fishblade-koi]

french boi very angy >:(( (and a bonus orphan that he picked up in a cave i guess)

[floating-goblin-art]

an old dog

+some close ups

[fumifooms]

I don’t like minimizing the importance and gravity of Laios and Toshiro’s fight into just being a childish squabble, even if to a degree it is framed that way, because to both of them it has a lot of personal significance and emotional weight and runs very deep to their characters… The fight isn’t nothing it’s a LOT, they made up but it’s not something easy to express and to get over for either of them which makes it all the more meaningful! I’m on both sides but there very much are sides, there’s no "they’re both having a ball, Toshiro and Laios hand in hand yay" side to the fight, that comes after

The fight with Toshiro WAS very scary to Laios, almost existentially so, but it’s moreso the "I thought I’d made a friend!!" bit and my god. My god actually

Like it’s not "just" about oh his friend liking him less than he thought, THAT IS SO MUCH. It’s a bond he thought he had being a lie it’s all the time and moments spent together either being a lie from his perspective or marred now looking back. It’s not only being upset at Toshiro for lying but upset at himself that he’s so easy to fool, it’s being upset that there’s something so wrong with you that you can’t even tell if your "close buddy" even actually likes you or not, it’s like. Holding my head. He can’t trust his own vision of events that happened do you see. There’s always this film of distrust that it could be a lie that should be there when he interacts with people there’s always this sense of cloak and dagger to expect backstabs out of nowhere because you CAN’T see it coming you CAN’T you CAN’T there’s something about you which makes it impossible so you CAN’T-

He’s so scared of not being able to read people. He knows it’s a weak spot he has, he’s always known. All of these bits are centered around social expectations and betrayals, the assumption that he doesn’t belong either in society or with other humans.

And Laios’ level of awareness is actually sort of complex to analyze, but it’s there, there’s how out of him and Falin he was the one sensitive to the ~aura of hatred~ he felt from the townspeople, there’s of course his nightmares whispering to him about the mocking looks, and how yeah actually he realizes that his gold stripper coworker was taking advantage of him. There’s of course the Winged Lion speech about his trauma and how he fundamentally mistrusts/dislikes humans to some deep seated degree, this distrust that he still keeps under control always. There’s how pre-canon he often wanted to suggest eating monsters but never worked up the courage to bring it up with the others. There’s how he comes across as stoic when he isn’t being enthusiastic…… We don’t know how aware and wary he is exactly in the moment but we do know he has some anxiety around social stuff, and looking back he does notice and aughh augh, the sense you have to hide yourself to not get hurt, and be on your guard and shit and.

When you don’t know what to look out for and when to look out for it, the general ‘common sense’ of not always trusting people or noticing when someone’s messing with you becomes hypervigilance in social settings

"Man they really know what you hate huh." Being socially unaware literally plagues him, he knows, he knows it so well.

It’s so quick that it’s almost hard to digest how literal and blatant Laios summoning his monster to crush all the people who’ve hurt him is. His literal go-to coping mechanism for comfort in his literal monster-induced emotionally intense nightmare, saving him by taking away the upsetting element (the humans)

"Monsters are his coping fantasy, where they can whisk him away from humanity, all the hurt it’s caused him and its arbitrary rules" with the subtlety of a brick. Monsters are his comfort safe zone "because they kill humans" yes but no it’s because he pits them as the guardians against humans who to him are in the role of the agressors. To him they represent freedom from the shackles of what it means to be part of humanity, a fundamentally social species

[charliexspring]

heartstopper is back for season 3 on october 3rd! 🍂🍂🍂

[crypticcowboys]

as a black person, i truly and wholeheartedly believe that sinners is a movie for everybody to enjoy, but seeing a certain demographic of people have one of their key takeaways from the movie to ship remmick and sammie makes me want to retract that statement. sammie is no older than 20 years old, with remmick presumably being over 1,000— and not only that, remmick is a predator. not a sexual one, but he forcibly takes away the mortality and cultural differences of people for his own personal gain. he preaches equality, but quite literally has every single black person that he turned singing Irish songs and doing irish dances because it is his culture. remmick may speak negatively about the klan and outright hatred, but remmick himself is an oppressor.

remmick is an amazingly written villain, and he may just be one of my favorite horror icons of all time. but to see people shipping him and sammie, a (very) young black man who he literally wants to STRIP the autonomy and culture of for his own personal desire of connection is incredibly tone deaf and I need white folk to understand that

[arnoketon]

idk why but i love the facial animations in this game so much, specially jacob's

[nobleriver]

TWD: The Ones Who Live - Finale Opening Scene + Blurred/Faraway

Requested by Anonymous

[fishblade-koi]

I MISSED THIS MF I MISSED HIM AND HIS PATHETIC FRENCH ASS I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU BEING MISERABLE (i love him so much) (also yes, I play in french because I can ✨)

[nightsofvangogh]

So into AC rogue I can't help but think what a masterpiece could have been

[u3pxx]

[bad omens] smitten, i believe.

[umberandmochaagate]

Like I said I watched Sinners again

In this second audience it was a few Black people that cheered and clapped when Sammie started reciting the Lord's prayer. But when Remmick began to finish the prayer, I heard gasps.

[takemebacktowheniwassane]

*inhale*

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!

Happy pride to the trailblazing gays in the background who brought representation into media you enjoy!!

Happy pride to front-running queer characters that showed people a relationship with someone who you love above all else is valid and beautiful!

Happy pride to openly trans, enby, & gender queer characters (and all the likes!) with experiences that make people feel SEEN and LOVED.

Happy pride to everyone :) I hope we all have such a lovely month and continue to persevere through hardships and bigotry to come out stronger and better than ever before. Love yourself and others, and drink lots of water (stay hydrated at parades DEFINITELY)! Stay safe out there!!

❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🩷 🤎 🖤

(Bonus art because I’m messing with their comic designs— William with buck teeth my beloved)

[sombertide-0]

more bellarno doodles