Short reflective essays that use everyday scenarios to examine people-pleasing, obligation, and the urge to justify one's own interests. Each issue offers a framework for noticing these patterns and considering healthier responses.
Website: https://journal.theopensourcedivine.com/
A personal travel and life diary written by a wanderer moving between the American West, Germany, Istanbul and Bali. Issues mix travel observations, reflections on personal change, and wellness practices such as movement and meditation.
Contemplative essays and letters on Sufism, drawing on the teachings of Khawaja Shamsuddin Azeemi and the Silsila Azeemia. Readers get reflective writing on the self, duality, inherited patterns and spiritual etiquette on the path.
Isabel Sterne writes personal essays on internet culture and identity, using her own career path and self-discovery as material. The sample issues explore how seemingly random choices can be intentional information gathering and how self-presentation works as a kind of service.
Roohle is an essay newsletter offering Quran-based spiritual frameworks, including Tadabbur-style interpretation, the distinction between the Spirit (rooh) and the soul (nafs), and a series on eight Prophetic Archetypes. Readers get a structured, opinionated reading of Quranic concepts with practical tools for recognising the spirit and tracing the stages of spiritual development.
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