Fw: SUFI STUFF

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, "ALTON ALTON" <lostnfoundation>

wrote:

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> Dear Harsha folks:

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> I sent this on to a Muslim friend that I swim with. He works hard

for peace and will have a group in the fall to study the scriptures.

> My wife is the intellectual in this house so I will go and learn to.

>

> thanks, alton, for those inspiring words. love, majid

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> All the particles of universe

> speak to you, day and night.

> we hear, we see, we delight.

> But to you strangers, we're blight.

> -- Jalel ed-Din Rumi

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> Majid Tehranian, Professor and Director

> University of Hawaii at Manoa

> Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research

> Personal website: www2.hawaii.edu/~majid

> Toda website: www.toda.org

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> My Heart Can Take on Any Appearance

>

> My heart can take on any appearance. The heart varies in

> accordance with variations of the innermost consciousness.

> It may appear in form as a gazelle meadow, a monkish cloister,

> an idol-temple, a pilgrim Kaaba, the tablets of the Torah for

> certain sciences, the bequest of the leaves of the Koran.

> My duty is the debt of Love. I accept freely and willingly

> whatever burden is placed upon me. Love is as the love of

> lovers, except that instead of loving the phenomenon, I love

> the Essential. That religion, that duty, is mine, and is my faith.

> A purpose of human love is to demonstrate ultimate, real love.

> This is the love which is conscious. The other is that which

> makes man unconscious of himself.

>

> ~Ibn El-Arabi

>

> From 'The Way of the Sufi' Idries Shah

 

Namaste Alton,

 

Good spiritual recreation reading the Sufis, I posted a lot of their

sayings about Jesus recently. I enjoy Rumi, and Din Attar a lot.

Mullah 'Nasruddin' is a scream but gets behind the mind.

 

Good luck and Mabarak Bashad......ONS....Tony.