Weekly Readings: 10

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June 2011
Unity
We suggest this four step approach to working with this selection:
Read this selection, out loud if possible, seven ties!
"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 re%ections and open yourself to
whatever new insight or essage the "ivine ight have for you!
&e't 1
&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
becoe one when your talisan is shattered!
&hat oneness you can)t know by reasoning!
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&e't 2
01oentary on 0#nd 2e is with
you wherever you are3
1
4o one ore tie we3ve coe back to the tale
- when did we ever take our leave of it5
2is gaol is if we coe to ignorance,
and if we coe to knowledge it3s 2is palace!
We3re drunk on 2i if we succub to sleep6
we3re in 2is hands if we reain awake!
7f we should weep, we3re clouds of hypocrites,
and if we laugh, then we3re 2is lightning %ash!
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Quran Surah al-Hadid 57:4
#nd we re%ect 2is wrath in war and anger,
2is love in peace and reconciliation!
Who are we in this convoluted world5
8ike alef, what3s the point5 9o point at all3
(1.1519-1524, trans. by A Wiliiams)