The Mystic and the Monk-A Journey of the Soul - Hardcover

by Ana Perez-Chisti (Author)

The Mystic and the Monk - A Journey of the Soul presents a unique portrait of two people's lives from early childhood through mature years using their own voices to tell the stories of their journey. Their stories interweave a timeframe, portraying the central elements of their discovery of the Divine Worker within their hearts. This unusual and candid approach provides evidence of spiritual insight that yearns to live in the wisdom of loving service to all beings, bringing one to the proximity of the Lover, Love and the Beloved.

"The word soul is used by different people in different senses, but the manner of its connection with the body proves it to be Divine. Therefore, the Sufi conception of the soul is that it is the Divine part of the human being...that rises like the flame in the fire." (Hazrat Inayat Khan)