Sharon Marcus
Sharon Marcus Quick Facts
Toronto based poet and novelist Sharon Marcus has been a student of the mystical teachings of M.R. Bawa Muhaiyadeen since 1975 when that great Sufi master first visited Toronto.
Sufism has been the declared or undeclared subject in all her books, whether fiction, nonfiction or poetry. The six published works, available online and in bookstores, are:
My Years with the Qutb: A Walk in Paradise; Five Times of Prayer, a poem; Sufi, a commentary; Adam's Story, a novel; A Traveller's Notebook, poems; and The Sufi Experience, anecdotal commentary.
For excerpts from each of these books and how to order, please see the website: www.sufipress.com.
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The Sufi Experience
The Sufi Experience, a new book by Sharon Marcus, is a provocative journey into the mysteries and mysticism of Sufism. Sharon Marcus identifies the inner contemplation and mystical traditions of her Sufi path as common property to all the major religions, while their goal and destination lie outside them, beyond. In her five previous books, whether fiction, nonfiction or poetry, Marcus' passionate devotion to the precepts of Sufism simmers beneath the lyrical writing and ex
March 8, 2008
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The Sufi Experience
The Sufi Experience, a new book by Sharon Marcus from the Sufi Press, is both experiential, anecdotal and descriptive. Sharon Marcus has written extensively in fiction, nonfiction and poetry about the Sufi understanding at the heart of her experience and her writing. A tradition on the nature of consciousness offers a platform to build an ascent to the revelations of divine wisdom, mysteries as irrelevant to the molecules and atoms of science as they are to the assumptions o
January 23, 2008
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The Beloved
To love God, to be in love with God is not the same as loving, being in love with a person because this love is a different kind of love, hard to describe since it is both familiar and unknown. This love is more demanding, more consuming as it gives us peace and steals our peace forever, or so it seems, at least until we come to that point of communion which heralds the merging, that union of one with One. It has nothing to do with the body except in the ways that love comman
May 31, 2007
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FAITH AND WISDOM
Faith and wisdom are profoundly intertwined; faith provides the solid root for wisdom’s growth and wisdom nourishes the soil in which faith can grow. They are inseparable and necessary to each other, conjoined twins. For any number of problems an aspirant or seeker on the path will encounter along the way, the doubts and confusion which spring up spontaneously in a lack of clarity, the remedy is often to be discovered in deeper faith, the trust that God who knows the beginnin
March 7, 2007
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Sharon Marcus
Faith and wisdom are profoundly intertwined; faith provides the solid root for wisdom’s growth and wisdom nourishes the soil in which faith can grow. They are inseparable and necessary to each other, conjoined twins. For any number of problems an aspirant or seeker on the path will encounter along the way, the doubts and confusion which spring up spontaneously in a lack of clarity, the remedy is often to be discovered in deeper faith, the trust that God who knows the beginning and the middle also knows the end of the story, the remedy is deeper faith and the absolute gratitude for what has already been given and for the perfection of the outcome, no matter how it turns out.
~Sharon Marcus, from her book, Sufi
Other highlights
The Sufi Press publishes poetry, fiction and non-fiction, each book in some way reflecting the informing experience of M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen’s mystical teachings. My Years with the Qutb, A Walk in Paradise; Five Times of Prayer, a poem; Sufi, a commentary; Adam's Story, a novel; and The Sufi Experience.