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Apr 27, 2004

"Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one." --Rumi

Back to the Core

In two illustrations that accompany writings on meditation by a 17th-century Sufi master, the Arabic letters for Allah are used to depict the human heart, according to translator Carl W. Ernst. Sufism, like a number of mystical religious traditions, has long regarded the heart as the gateway to God, nirvana, enlightenment. Science, over the past two decades, has been catching up. Today, the heart is increasingly being seen as the CEO of the body's emotional response system, a source of intelligence perhaps even greater than the brain.