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In reply to the discussion: Rumi and the Vision of the Qur'an [View all]gtar100
(4,192 posts)27. My take on these books (spiritual) is they won't make sense unless read with one's whole being.
There is something in them that speaks more to the heart and soul than the intellect alone. And it has to be lived; just having the knowledge of the words isn't enough. When it starts to become a formula or a method that the mind clings to, that's where I feel like I lose the understanding. But maybe those are just steps along the way rather than ultimate destinations. Set up camp and stay for a spell but the spirit will eventually become restless and want to move on to either go deeper or find a new perspective. Those who linger too long on an ideology risk becoming dogmatic, so it seems to me.
The article also has this quote I thought was insightful:
By learning about the material world as a metaphor, as the theater on which the Divine Names manifest, we can start to build a bridge through the imagination to a relationship with deeper levels of reality. It is not just a matter of seeing the truth but of knowing and living it.
Thanks for sharing this, guillaumeb.
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What about the free will of people who don't want to be murdered in a religious dispute?
trotsky
Jul 2018
#7
It is not a personal attack to reference threads where your own quoted text contradicted your claim,
trotsky
Jul 2018
#20
What makes you feel that you have this insight into the mind of the Creator? eom
guillaumeb
Jul 2018
#26
It should be obvious to everyone by now that gil's rules only apply when he wants them to.
trotsky
Jul 2018
#107
It's a ridiculous apologetic made even more ridiculous by its definition of "free will".
Act_of_Reparation
Jul 2018
#77
Like the Creator, I give my children vague, non-literal, and contradictory instructions
marylandblue
Jul 2018
#9