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Weekly Readings:

Devotion & Transformation


This week we move from the topic of devotion to the theme of transformation. We suggest this four step approach to working with this selection: Read this selection, out loud if possible, seven times. Dwell upon the phrase or sentence that touches you. sk yourself what relevance or application this has to yourself !inally, sit in the afterglow of these reflections and open yourself to whatever new insight or message the Divine might have for you

Te"t #: Devotion !or lovers, the only lecturer is the beauty of the $eloved: their only book and lecture and lesson is the !ace. %utwardly they are silent, but their penetrating remembrance rises to the high throne of their !riend. Their only lesson is enthusiasm, whirling, and trembling, not the precise points of law. &'.'()*+'(),Te"t .: Transformation /ome, arise from the depths of your heart0 1ou are alive and born of the living. % lovely one, aren2t you suffocated by this narrow tomb3 1ou are the 4oseph of the time, the bright sun: arise from this prison and show your face0 1our 4onah has been cooked and absorbed in the belly of the fish: to deliver him there is no way but glorification of 5od. &..'#'.+6-

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