Weekly Readings: 10th June 2011

Unity

We suggest this four step approach to working with this selection: Read this selection, out loud if possible, seven ti es! "well upon the phrase or sentence that touches you! #sk yourself what relevance or application this has to your personally $inally, sit in the afterglow of these reflections and open yourself to whatever new insight or essage the "ivine ight have for you! %he beauty of the heart is the lasting beauty: its lips give to drink of the water of life! %ruly it is the water, that which pours, and the one who drinks'all three beco e one when your talis an is shattered! %hat oneness you can(t know by reasoning! )2!*1+,-. %e&t 2 /0o entary on /#nd 1e is with you wherever you are21

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3o one ore ti e we2ve co e back to the tale , when did we ever take our leave of it4 1is gaol is if we co e to ignorance, and if we co e to knowledge it2s 1is palace! We2re drunk on 1i if we succu b to sleep5 we2re in 1is hands if we re ain awake! 6f we should weep, we2re clouds of hypocrites, and if we laugh, then we2re 1is lightning flash!

Quran Surah al-Hadid 57:4

#nd we reflect 1is wrath in war and anger, 1is love in peace and reconciliation! Who are we in this convoluted world4 7ike alef, what2s the point4 8o point at all2 (1.1519-1524, trans. by A Wiliiams)