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.
Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti
Nada te turbe, nada te espante
Quien a Dios tiene, nada le falta
Nada te turbe, nada te espante
Solo Dios Basta
Nothing need ever trouble or haunt you:
One who has God is never left wanting.
Nothing need ever trouble or haunt you;
God is all one needs.
Sila Ersinarsinivdluge – ‘Be not afraid of the Universe!’
Papa Ram Das:
Life, in every condition, can be lived in freedom and joy, provided the soul within remains unattached to external forms of life.
The one who does not behold the finger of God working in all events and happenings experiences needless suffering. Therefore, peace and contentment belong only to those who have submitted, in all the vicissitudes of life, to the supreme will of God.
Surely life has a beautiful meaning and purpose when it is understood to be of a universal nature and significance. The utmost grandeur of it is revealed when it breaks through every sense of division and diversity and sheds all around soothing light of pure, spontaneous love – the rapture of an inexplicable joy and peace.
Whatever circumstances you may find yourself in, do not forget the great and merciful Lord of the universe. Life bereft of the thought of God is verily not worth living. God is our mother, guide and protector. To be in constant awareness of God means purity, strength, courage and peace; because God is all power, knowledge and bliss.
Change is the law of nature. Change signifies rise and fall, the twin aspects of the same movement, each aspect carrying with it the same sense of greatness or littleness. So there is nothing to be surprised at or grieved at, in the changing affairs of the world. Worlds are built and brought into being; worlds are broken and destroyed. This is the Divine Play.
The ideal of God is a bridge connecting the limited life with the unlimited; whoever travels over this bridge passes safely from the limited to the unlimited life.– Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan