Songs of One Breath is a weekly online space with Jilani Cordelia Prescott to explore the direct, joyful experience of mysticism through practice. Each Friday she shares chants, mantra, breath practices and body prayer drawn from a range of traditions, offered as grounding, comfort, and a pathway of the heart toward deeper connection and spiritual freedom. You are warmly invited to join live on Zoom (or via Facebook Live) at 2.30pm London time, and it is free. If you enjoy the class or the podcast, and would like to support Jilani’s work, donations are welcome via PayPal.
Let me tell you of the luminous path.
I am beyond measure. I cannot be calculated.
I am beyond space and time.
I am beyond ancient and beyond the future.
There are no directions to me.
I am always here.
I am the embrace
Of your most intimate experience.
Though I am beyond the intellect,
I am not beyond your daring.
I am the nourishing state of fullness
That is the essence of soul.
You belong to me, and I am yours.
(Lorin Roche: The Radiance Sutras)
There is a sun-star rising outside form.
I am lost in that other. It’s sweet not
to look at two worlds, to melt in meaning
as Honey melts in milk. No one tires of
following the soul. I don’t recall now what
happens on the manifest plane. I stroll
with those I have always wanted to know,
fresh and graceful as the waterlily, or a rose.
(Rumi: Coleman Barks)
The clear bead at the centre
changes everything. There are
no edges to my loving now.
You’ve heard it said there’s
a window that opens from one
mind to another, but if there’s
no wall, there’s no need for
fitting the window, or the latch.
(Rumi: Coleman Barks)