People You Should Know About

PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW

A forum for my mind. Words that can be passed through people, times, & places. Feelings & practices that will give me a sense of  knowing I can, because they DID!!

The remarkable true story of a contemporary Saint who dedicated her life to sharing with the world the peace she had found. From 1953 to 1981 an enigmatic, silver-haired woman calling herself only "Peace Pilgrim" walked more than 40,000 miles (the circumference  of the Earth by the way) coast to coast of the USA, Canada and Mexico on a personal pilgrimage for peace. She vowed to "remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace, walking until given shelter and fasting until given food." In the course of her 28-year pilgrimage she touched the hearts, minds, and lives of thousands of individuals all across North America. Penniless and homeless, possessing only a toothbrush and a comb, Peace Pilgrim created a database of more than 6,000 pen pals from all corners of the globe.

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Molana Jalal-e-Din Mohammad Molavi Rumi

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

 We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely!

 Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?

 We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.

 We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.

 Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!

 Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift;
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.

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"It is said that after Muhammad and the prophets revelation does not descend upon anyone else. Why not? In fact it does, but then it is not called 'revelation.' It is what the Prophet referred to when he said, 'The believer sees with the Light of God.' When the believer looks with 'The believer sees with the Light of God.' When the believer looks with God's Light, he sees all things: the first and the last, the present and the absent. For how can anything be hidden from God's Light? And if something is hidden, then it is not the Light of God. Therefore the meaning of revelation exists, even if it is not called revelation."

 

Fihi ma fihi [Discourses of Rumi]

quoted from William C. Chittick, The Sufi Path of Love:

The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi