Words from Rumi on differences

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Rumi.......... an exert on "Moses and the Shepherd"

 

 

A sudden revelation came then to Moses. God's voice:

 

 

You have separated me from one

of my own. Did you come as a Prophet to unite, or to sever?

I have given each being a separate

and unique way of seeing and knowing and saying that knowledge.

 

What seems wrong to you is right for him,

What is poison to one is honey to someone else.

 

Purity and impurity, sloth and diligence in worship,

these mean nothing to me.

I am apart from all that. Ways of

worshiping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another.

Hindus do Hindu things. The Dravidian

Muslims in India do what they do. It's all praise, and it's all

right.

 

It's not me that's glorifed in acts of worship. It's the worshipers! I

don't hear the words they say. I look inside at the humility.

 

That broken-open lowliness is the reality, not the language! Forget

phraseology. I want burning, burning.

Be friends with your burning. Burn up your

thinking and your forms of expression!

Moses, those who pay attention to ways of

behaving and speaking are one sort.

Lovers who burn are another.

 

 

 

 

With Delight In Light and Love

Lynette"may I always endeavor to write from the

heart"www.geocities.com/poetic_delight/

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