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      The Journey of the Self: A Sufi Guide to Personality

      Table of Contents

        • Chapter 1: Stepping-Stones to Self-Knowledge
          • The Vortex of Creation
          • The One Self
          • The Many Profiles but One Face of Humanity
          • The Challenge of Opposites
          • Attraction and Repulsion
          • Pleasure and Pain
          • Change and Non-Change
          • The Quest for Freedom
          • Freedom of No Choice
          • The Need for Security
          • Basic Needs
          • The Hierarchy of Fulfillment
          • The Drive to Achieve and Succeed
          • The Roots of Greed
          • Peace
          • Health and its Hierarchy
          • Man, the Unified Being
          • For the Love of Life
          • The Urge for Creativity
          • The Drive for Knowledge
          • Two Types of Knowledge
          • Society, Culture, and Character
          • Travel
          • Language
          • Religions
          • The Intended Destiny
          • Law and justice
          • Morality, Virtue and Divine Law
        • Chapter 2: The Nature and Spectrum of the Self
          • Definition
          • Classifications of the Self
            • The Three Levels of Being
            • The Three Stations
            • The Three Creations
            • The Three Worlds
            • The Three Worlds of Pictures
          • Classification of the Self According to Avicenna
            • The Vegetal Self
            • The Animal Self
            • The Rational Self
            • Further Comments on the Rational Self
          • Abodes of the Self
          • The Senses and the Self
            • The Five Outer Senses
            • The Five Inner Senses
          • The Relationship of the Senses to the Self
          • The Relationship of the Body and the Self
          • The Spirit and the Self
          • The Heart and the Self
            • The Heart as a Battlefield
          • The Intellect and the Self
          • Summary of the Self to the Spirit, Heart and Intellect
        • Chapter 3: The Journey of the Self
          • Phase One: The World of Absolute Unitive Reality
          • Phase Two: The World of Inner Dependence
          • Phase Three: The World of Outer Dependence
            • The Seven Factors of Influence on the Self
          • Phase Four: The World of Interdependence
            • The Holographic Paradigm
            • The Chart of Opposites: Grid of Eight
            • Varieties of Love
            • Male/Female Relationships
          • Towards Phase Five of Inner Reliance
            • The Earth and the World
            • Doing Without (zuhd)
            • Reflection and Retreat
            • Right Companionship
            • Relationship with Others
            • Models of Wayfaring
              • The Seven Stations of the Self
              • Levels of Certainty
              • The Four Unveilings
              • The First Unveiling: From Creation to the Creator
              • The Second Unveiling: With the Creator by the Courtesy of the Creator
              • The Third Unveiling: From the Creator to Creation by the Permission of the Creator
              • The Fourth Unveiling: With Creation by the Authority of the Creator
          • Phase Five: The World of Inner Reliance
            • The Beautiful Names of God
            • Who is the Realized Being?
            • Towards the Non-time Zone
            • The Next Consciousness
            • The Descent and Ascent of the Self according to the Qur’an
            • The Return of the Soul
            • The Agony and the Reward of the Grave
            • The Interspace between this World and the Next
            • The Nature of the Soul in the Next Consciousness
            • The Day of Reckoning
            • The Return, or the Next Creation (Consciousness)
        • Chapter 4: Treatment, Cure and Fulfillment
          • The Virtues and the Self
          • The Virtues and the Self according to al-Miskawayh
            • The Bestial Self
            • The Predatory Self
            • The Rational Self
            • The Combined Virtues
            • The Tree of Virtues
            • Further Comments on Virtues
            • Further Comments on Justice
          • The Treatment and Cure of the Self
          • The Three Major Sources of the Conditions of the Self
          • Conditions of the Power of Attraction
          • The Conditions of the Power of Repulsion
            • Anger
            • Cowardice
            • Fear
            • Fear of Death
            • Treatment of the Fear of Death
            • Fear of Punishment after Death
            • Further Treatment of the Fear of Death
          • Conditions of the Faculty of Discrimination
          • Other Conditions of the Self
            • Grief
            • The Nature of Grief
            • Treatment of Grief
            • Further Comments on Grief
            • Sadness
            • Misery and Sorrow
            • Treatment of Misery and Sorrow
            • Conditions of the Heart
            • Treatment of the Conditions of the Heart
            • Safeguarding the Health of the Self
        • Chapter 5: The Unified Self
          • Birth and Early Growth
            • The Star at the Center
          • Learning, Experiencing and Awareness
            • Outer and Inner Power
            • Biting the Hand that Feeds
            • Putting our Best Foot Forward
            • Pleasing Others
            • Dressing for the Occasion
            • Unitive Body
            • Stilling the Mind
            • Physical and Spiritual Unification
            • Inner Freedom and Outer Attachment
            • Curious Distractions
            • Seeking the Supernatural
            • Love of the Old and the New
            • The Meaning of the Family Tree
            • Do Not Take the World for Granted
            • The Forty Days’ Union
            • Sleep and Death
            • The Only Certainty
          • Awakening and Spiritual Maturity
            • Ending at the Beginning
            • Love of Nature
          • The Journey in Life

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