Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

About the Author

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi teacher in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is the founder of The Golden Sufi Center and is the author of several books, most recently Including the Earth in Our Prayers: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice.

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Spiritual Principles in Action, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

July 25, 2019By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

The Sufi master on meeting the inner and outer challenges of our time

Living the Moment of Love, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

January 30, 2019By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Awakening to ourselves and the world

The Call of the Earth, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

January 10, 2018By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Reconnecting to the sacred, from a Sufi teacher

The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

April 29, 2017By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Housework as spiritual practice, from a Sufi master

Part of an Ancient Story: A Conversation with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (Full Version)

November 15, 2015By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

One August day recently in Northern California, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee sat down with Parabola in to speak about free will and destiny. The English-born Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi mystic and lineage holder in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi […]

Part of an Ancient Story: A Conversation with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

October 28, 2015By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

One August day recently in northern California, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee sat down with Parabola to speak about free will and destiny.

Not Knowing, Non-Being, and the Power of Nothingness, By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, with Hilary Hart

July 20, 2015By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Exploring the “hidden face of God”

Every reader of Parabola is on a quest: the “search for meaning” on our cover could equally read “quest for meaning.” For many, involvement with quest has been lifelong. As a teenager I daydreamed about searching for the Holy Grail. It wasn’t the sacred relic that fired my imagination, but the quest—the chance to devote body, heart, and mind to the pursuit of something of infinite value.

This Spring 2020 issue of Parabola teems with stories of women and men on similar paramount quests—for the Grail, and for more. There are Dag Hammarskjold, Vaclav Havel, and G.I. Gurdjieff, three wise men who guide us and author Roger Lipsey toward resolution of our global climate crisis. There is religion scholar Elaine Pagels, talking about her quest to understand the gnostic teachings of Jesus. Read more>

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