Guest guest Posted March 3, 2001 Report Share Posted March 3, 2001 Beloved, bless your love with a kind word. He has lost his soul, now his body is being consumed. In the realm of love, both selves are wiped out. The moth is consumed, just as the flame itself is extinguished. The destiny of mankind was foreseen on the day of creation. Alter the design, if you have the courage. First cleanse yourself, purify your heart, then counsel others, O Huma, but first you must change the form of your speech. Meher Baba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2001 Report Share Posted March 5, 2001 lobster wrote: > Purification > > Beloved, bless your love with a kind word. > He has lost his soul, now his body is being consumed. > > In the realm of love, both selves are wiped out. > The moth is consumed, > just as the flame itself is extinguished. > > The destiny of mankind > was foreseen on the day of creation. > Alter the design, if you have the courage. > > First cleanse yourself, > purify your heart, then counsel others, > O Huma, but first you must change > the form of your speech. > > Meher Baba > > Very Nice Andrew, > > "Beloved, bless your love with a kind word." > > Is this a kind of thought: > > Sometimes people think that speaking kindly > (something we probably all prefer) is the peferred way. > Is that kind of kindness in the service of Truth? > For example some Gurus and holy types > know how to encourage us into a mode > of expression that makes us meek and them > empowering (of us, of course, of course). > Devotees prefer this. > Is genuine spirituality a series of pithy words > couched in poetic notation or a sharing, > merging and transfer of possibilities > or [your words]? > How does wisdom councel itself? > As is said above through purification > and awareness of undelying worded motivations > and reminding and reinforcement of spiritual > conditioning? > Now I do not know why these words were posted > or what they might mean to others > but personal nutrition is something I do know about > and so the value for me is in the sentiment: > "Beloved, bless your love with a kind word." > Many thanks Andrew. > > :-) > Lobster > I was reading through the words of Meher Baba and enjoying the sweet juiciness of them. God is Love. This prayer of the finite to the infinite that he knows himself to be, intellectually, but yet not fully, asking to be consumed, pleading for a kind word, any word would be kind, a killing word, any word the word. "The destiny of mankind was foreseen on the day of creation. Alter the design, if you have the courage." It was this verse that moved me to post this poem in particular. The matter of fate and free will keeps coming up on the various lists, standard formulations do not satisfy. Whose voice is this and who is being spoken to? love, andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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