In the Wisdom of a great Sufi sage, Ibn Arabi, I found the song of my
heart. When out of fear or pain I find myself confused or pulled to one
religion's dogmas, and I seek balance I go back to his words, which translate
roughly to this:
My heart
has opened unto every form.
It is a
pasture for gazelles,
a cloister
for Christian Monks,
a temple
for idols,
the Ka'ba of the pilgrim,
the tablets
of the Torah,
and the book
of the Koran.
I practice
the religion of Love;
in
whatsoever directions its caravans advance,
the religion
of Love shall be my religion
and my faith.
-Ibn Arabi-
One of the great quotes that
inspired me and rang of truth early in my search was attributed Crazy Horse, as
he smoked the pipe with Sitting Bull the year before his death. The most
recent version of this quote on the internet sounds much more flowery and mixed
with the Sanskrit concept of Namaste, then the version here which I first saw
in print in 1995.
"I
see a time, after the sky has grown dark and ugly and the waters bad smelling,
when the young white ones will come to those of our people
who still carry the spark of knowledge of unity with all
that lives and ask for wisdom.
In
that day there will be some who carry the light and who will give it to
them."
Jeffrey
Phillips FREE LANCE
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Galadriel (from Lord of the Rings) My second result was Yoda.
"Judge
me by my size, do you? And well you should not - for my ally is the Force.
And a powerful ally it is. Life greets it, makes it grow. Its energy
surrounds us, and binds us. Luminescent beings are we, not this crude matter!
You must feel the Force around you, everywhere."
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"Great spirits have always
found violent
opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot
understand it when a man does not
thoughtlessly
submit to hereditary prejudices but
honestly and
courageously uses his intelligence."
- Albert Einstein-
COMMITMENT:
"Until one is committed there is always
hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning
all acts of initiative (and Creation), there is one elementary truth, the
ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment
one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sort of
things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A
whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all
manor of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no
man could have dreamt would have come his way."
Goethe
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