tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833518530559679192.post8642305808694120651..comments2023-09-29T08:07:48.323-07:00Comments on oneheartforpeace: RUMI for BalanceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833518530559679192.post-12689503983121181912009-09-29T21:56:57.245-07:002009-09-29T21:56:57.245-07:00I've debated for hours as to whether or not to...I've debated for hours as to whether or not to put this here. <br /><br />When listening to this interview I couldn't help but feel that the personal story had a lot to do with this topic of balance although in a very gritty way from the dark side of human existence and loss. As well as funny at times...<br /><br />But although a bit unusual, I tho't someone may be helped by this personal story of struggle with addictive substances and so much more to come to truth, forgiveness and reconciliation as well as the ability to feel and express emotion when he hadn't cried in 25 years! Made peace with father right before his father's death. Anyway, the audio is quite compelling. I know NOTHING about his writing which looks rather raw. Hope this helps someone?<br /><br />Dan Fonte confronting his demons with Terri Gross NPR<br />http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13<br /><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=113279965&m=13788638CNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877484524704475807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833518530559679192.post-48579053930926954372009-09-29T20:56:52.146-07:002009-09-29T20:56:52.146-07:00Also find this quote on Akhtar Wasim Dar Sahib'...Also find this quote on Akhtar Wasim Dar Sahib's website - it's from his journal and a quote which will remain from anonymous source for now:<br /><br />Every individual is an experiment on part of nature, a throw into the unknown; his only vocation should be to allow this throw to work itself out in his inner most being. Humanity is not something complete that must be maintained and protected, but a distant goal towards which we were marching. <br /><br />Moreover because darkness and light resides within each of us, becoming conscious of our own evil is our only hope in a world where our capacity for destruction is weighed against the soul’s capacity for compassion and regeneration.CNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877484524704475807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8833518530559679192.post-17183670084172919522009-09-29T09:43:36.694-07:002009-09-29T09:43:36.694-07:00THE WAY OF LOVE is a novel by Nigel Watts on early...THE WAY OF LOVE is a novel by Nigel Watts on early life of Rumi. Following is the ending passage:<br />Even as be bathed in the sudden light of grace, Jalal knew that this happiness would pass; he knew too that seeking to maintain this state would hasten its end, that only by letting go of God could he keep Him. If he wanted to walk with God, he would have to move continuously, and sometimes that would mean losing Him. And yet Jalal knew that even if desolation was felt again, that the absence from God was not real, that all was God-even the desolation, the loneliness, the nostalgia. Within every cry Jalal raised to the heavens of ‘God, where are you?’ had been hidden God’s answer: ‘Here I am.’ And so it would always be.Akhtar Wasim Darhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09635876866214567866noreply@blogger.com