Muaad
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What Love Feels Like Inside Me
Love moves through me first in my heart. It pierces, it squeezes, and it spreads through my entire body. Sometimes it is heavy, almost unbearable, yet even in that weight, my heart feels alive. All of me feels alive. This love does not ask for anything. It does not plead or demand. It simply dominates… Read more
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My 2025 Reading List: 47 Books, One Year, and the Brutal Beauty of the Human Condition
(Check the bottom of this blog post for the full list) 47 Books, One Year, and the Brutal Beauty of the Human ConditionIn 2025, I read forty-seven books. Not because I wanted a number, or to impress anyone, but because I was searching. Searching for understanding, searching for answers, searching for something that could help… Read more
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Monday Motivation
Faking it until you make it “Like the masked guests of 18th century balls, we don’t always arrive with confidence; sometimes we wear it until it becomes our face.” – Muaad Sucule Sometimes we wake up on a Monday and we aren’t motivated at all. Maybe we miss the weekend, maybe we are sick and… Read more
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A Treatise on Mysticism
1. Definition By mysticism, I mean having an intuitive grasp of what life is truly about. I mean seeing, with suddenness, the facts that surround us. The word mysticism is a loaded word which I find unfortunate but I believe many people have an experience where they suddenly see things for what they are and… Read more
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Mysticism, Reason, and the Ego: Why There’s No Clash
By Muaad Sucule / @jestoraverse Many people assume that mystical experience exists in tension with reason or that the ego is an obstacle to connecting with ultimate reality. From my experience, this is not the case. Mysticism, reason, and the ego are not enemies — they are different channels through which the same reality can… Read more
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My Thoughts On The Path of Love
Background The path of love is very interesting and as of yet it seems to be the most influential thought on my poetry. I first began my journey at the period when I began connecting with poetry when I listened to some of Rumi’s poems. Back then, however, I didn’t understand what he meant by… Read more
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We Live in a Dual World
Prose by Muaad Sucule (@jestoraverse) We live in a dual world. There are so many opportunities, yet so much misery across the globe. There’s so much to be grateful for, and at the same time, so much to be sad about. Somehow, everything feels like it’s changing, and the past seemed easier. This is a… Read more
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How to overcome writers block – shifting perspectives
Writers block is exactly that. An internal block. In this article I discuss how I had writers block and what I did to overcome it. Read more
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New Releases
Read the background to my latest 6 poems. Why they were written and how I found my identity and message as a poet. Read more
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Individualisms effect on Poetry: A Discussion
In this article I discuss how individualism has had an effect on poetry. Read more