Phase 1 · Weeks 1–4
Foundations
Every life is a journey, and the first question is how you travel it.
The road and the traveller
State of lightFirst light on the horizon
Nursi begins with travellers. Again and again, two people set out across the same country by the same road and arrive at very different places. Nothing about the road differs. What differs is how each of them understands the journey.
These four weeks lay the foundations, one idea a week: travelling in His name, being honest with yourself, knowing what you are for, and trusting the One who holds what you cannot. Most weeks open with one of Nursi’s parables; the second opens with an image instead, a firefly and a mirror. The light here is the first light of morning, low on the horizon.
- 01In the NameThe Words · The First WordTo act “in the Name of God” is to cross the world under the protection of its Owner, instead of alone.Open the week
- 02Honesty with YourselfThe Words · Addendum to the Twenty-sixth Word; The Damascus Sermon · Third WordChange starts with seeing yourself truly, and with saying only what is true, or staying silent.Open the week
- 03The Higher GoalThe Words · The Eleventh Word · The Twenty-third Word, Second ChapterA human being was made to know, love and thank the One who made him. That goal puts everything else in its right order.Open the week
- 04Contentment and TrustThe Words · The Second Word · The Sixth WordBelief changes how the same world looks, and lifts a weight we were never meant to carry.Open the week