Physicians of the Heart Quotes

“Invocation of Ya Kabir is a remedy for being imprisoned by limited mental constructs. See”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Repetition of Ya ‘Aliyy is an antidote for the ego’s attachment to reputation, rank, and hierarchy.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Repetition of Ya Shakur is an antidote for dissatisfaction with the falseness or incompleteness of the world.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“The invocation of Ya ‘Azim is a very helpful practice for all who pay attention to realization in an abstract sort of way, but who cannot bring their realization out and function with it in daily life. It is a divine quality that is called on for the accomplishment of extraordinary aims.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Repetition of Ya Halim brings a mildness of manner that is an antidote for anger and impatience.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Invocation of Ya Latif is an antidote for coarseness of ego. It brings gracefulness, resiliency, and a softening of our defensive behaviors and rigidities. It is often paired in repetition with Ya Khabir (31) to express very refined and subtle knowledge.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Repetition of Ya Mu’izz is an antidote for attachment to reputation and a remedy for the habit of self-aggrandizement.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“The combination of these Names in repetition helps to protect you from your own spiritual greed or desire, and to protect you from going too high too fast when you are not prepared. Repetition of Ya Khafid may also be an antidote for spiritual burnout, especially when a person feels that spiritual practices are not working to change their condition.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Reciting Ya Fattah is a very powerful practice because, even in the midst of despair, it brings the possibility of awakening to love and ecstasy.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Al-Fattah brings great power to clear the way of obstacles and open the path of your life for success.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“By invoking Ya Wahhab you become identified with a stream flowing continuously from the divine source, and everything you need in life is already fully present and flowing in that stream.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Invocation of Ya Ghaffar offers a healing salve that is an antidote for self-loathing, guilt, and blame.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“When recited, Ya Jabbar empowers the sincere practitioner with an enduring strength so that nothing can shake you. Through embodying this quality your existence becomes unified. It is the mender of our fractured existence.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Invocation of Ya ‘Aziz brings freedom without limitations and is a remedy for our experience of being powerless and under great restraint due to restrictions that may be real or imagined. Repetition of Ya ‘Aziz is also an important remedy for the common human experience of feeling undervalued and worthless.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Invocation of Ya Mu’min is an antidote for hypocrisy. It is a remedy for those who only give lip service to their faith or who trust in Allah but lack fullness of heart. And it is also an antidote for fanaticism or what is sometimes called blind faith. It shares the same root as al-Muhaimin (7) and may be combined with it in recitation.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Invocation of Ya Malik, Ya Malikal-Mulk is an antidote for all who feel abandoned and don’t believe they belong anywhere.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Recitation of Ya Rahim is an antidote for all who feel abandoned by God and who need to experience the healing activity of divine love reaching deeply within them. See Ya Rahman (1), with which it is paired in repetition.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Invocation of Ya Rahman is a healing remedy for all who feel disconnected from God and for those marked by a wound of self-loathing. See Ya Rahim (2), with which it is paired in repetition.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

“Alhamdulillah can be seen in the phenomenon of the arc of ascent and descent, how everything returns to the source, and how boundless gratitude from the source flows into all of creation. Subhanallah offers us the image of swimming around the central still point in spiraling circles of light. All beings and all realms of being constantly circumambulate and interpenetrate that heart center. Allahu Akbar appears to be even greater than the other two because it leads our process to go beyond concepts. The mind falls away and is led into essence. There is not a trace left of the conceptual.”
― Wali Ali Meyer, Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah