My Beloved is ONE alone; Everywhere my eyes seem Him only. In search of love, I came to this world, but after seeing the world I wept, for I felt coldness on all sides, and I cried out in despair, "Must I too Become cold?". And with tears, tears, tears, I nurtured that plant with tenderness which I had almost lost within my heart. Putting reason in the churn of love, I churned and churned. Then I took the butter for myself.
Many intellectual people, with their various ideas, differ from one another in their opinions and in their way of looking at things, in their speculations, but do the prophets differ from one another? No, they cannot differ. The reason is that it is the various minds which differ, not the souls. The one who lives in his mind, is conscious of his mind; the one who lives in his soul is conscious of the soul. ... When a person is living in his mind, he is living through the darkness of the night. The moment he rises above his mind and awakens in the light of the soul he becomes spiritual. And if a thousand spiritual people speak, they will say the same thing, perhaps in different words but with only one meaning, for they have one and the same vision. This is why spiritual realization is called the truth. There are many facts but only one truth. The facts can be put into words but not the truth, for God is truth, the soul is truth, the real self of man is truth.
We generally confuse truth with fact, and we often use the word fact for truth. When we look at it from the mystic's point of view we find that words are too intricate ever to explain what is truth. ... Truth is that which cannot be pointed out, because all things that can be compared have their opposite, but neither God nor truth has an opposite. Names are to point out forms, and words are to distinguish one thing from another, while definitions come from the pairs of opposites or at least from differences. That which is all-pervading and is in all things and beings, that which every word explains and yet no word can explain, is God and is truth.
The seeker after truth goes out into the world and he finds innumerable different sects and religions. He does not know where to start. Then he desires to find out what is hidden under these sects, these different religions, and he begins to seek the object which he wishes to gain through wisdom. Wisdom is a veil over truth, even wisdom cannot be called truth. God alone is truth, and it is truth that is God. And truth can neither be studied nor taught nor learned; it is to be touched, it is to be realized; and it can be realized by the unfoldment of the heart.
late 14c., clokke, originally "clock with bells," probably from M.Du. clocke (Du. klok), from O.N.Fr. cloque, from M.L. (7c.) clocca "bell," probably from Celtic (cf. O.Ir.clocc, Welsh cloch "bell") and spread by Irish missionaries (unless the Celtic words are from Latin); ultimately of imitative origin. Replaced O.E. dægmæl, from dæg"day" + mæl "measure, mark." The Latin word was horologium; the Greeks used a water-clock (klepsydra, lit. "water thief"). O'clock for of the clock is c.1720.
I just watched DAY LIGHT SAVINGS TIME make it's appearance ... until November 4th and it will mess me up again when it goes away. I have concluded that I have WAY TOO MANY clocks in this house. Both my stove and microwave in the kitchen is OVERKILL on clocks for such a small area!! Have concluded our society has an obsession with 'keeping track of time' ... yet physicists will tell you that time is only relevant for MASS and we now perceive the ENERGY UNIVERSE we exist within. MASS is only an illusion due to our material nervous system where brain surgeons can dissect my brain yet the neurologist perceives electrical-chemical communication of the neuron that lives beyond the sight of the brain surgeon's optic nerve. (Am philosophical or what tonight?)
I wanted to be a neurologist when I was in high school back in the late 1960's - I did NOT want to be a brain surgeon!! I am 'into' INTERCONNECTED SYSTEMS in contrasts to hunks of mass like a brain or the chair I'm sitting upon. OUR CULTURE IS TOTALLY MATERIALISTIC!!
O.E. getimian "to happen, befall," from time (n.). Meaning "to appoint a time" (of an action, etc.) is attested from c.1300; sense of "to record the time of" (a race, event, etc.) is first attested 1660s.
O.E. tima "limited space of time," from P.Gmc. *timon "time" (cf. O.N. timi "time, proper time," Swed. timme "an hour"), from PIE *di-mon-, from root *da- "cut up, divide" (see tide).
It is from the ancient Roman Empire and their spoken and written language of LATIN that now enables Americans to divide their reality into NOUNS and VERBS. The Roman's conquered the Celtic people in that region they named Gaul and provided the language of Old French to be spoken by the conquerors of the British Isles in 1066AD. Those in Britain were FORCED to learn the language of their conquerors from the mainland!! The legal language of Old French was boated then over to England ... to then follow in boats closely behind the Pilgrims to the New World.
late 14c., from O.Fr. verbe "part of speech that expresses action or being," from L. verbum "verb," originally "a word," from PIE root *were- (cf. Avestan urvata-"command;" Skt. vrata- "command, vow;" Gk. rhetor "public speaker," rhetra "agreement, covenant," eirein "to speak, say;" Hittite weriga- "call, summon;" Lith.vardas "name;" Goth. waurd, O.E. word "word").
VERY important to attach a NAME to a human being if you desire to own them as a piece of property!!
O.E. nama, from P.Gmc. *namon (cf. O.Fris. nama, O.H.G. namo, Ger. Name, Du. naam, O.N. nafn, Goth. namo "name"), from PIE *nomn- (cf. Skt. nama, Avestannama, Gk. onoma, onyma, L. nomen, O.C.S. ime, gen. imene, Rus. imya, O.Ir. ainm, O.Welsh anu). Meaning "one's reputation" is from c.1300. As a modifier meaning "well-known," first attested 1938. The verb is from O.E. namian. Related: Named; naming. Name-calling is from 1853; name-dropper first recorded 1947. The name of the game "the essential thing or quality" is from 1966; to have one's name in lights "be a famous performer" is from 1929.
It was my friend from Afghanistan that expanded my knowledge of how our culture USES the name that gets affixed to us on our governmental birth certificates. He told me that prior to his family's move to the states they did NOT have a 'LAST NAME'. His family had to MAKE UP a last name for their move! My friend uses his father's FIRST NAME as his own LAST NAME because it was tradition to be called .. "Rahem son of ___" as his NAME. In such a Patriarchal Culture my own name would have been "Linda daughter of Joe".
O.E. fæder "father, male ancestor," from P.Gmc. *fader (cf. O.S. fadar, O.Fris. feder, Du. vader, O.N. faðir, O.H.G. fater, Ger. vater), from PIE *pəter (cf. Skt. pitar-, Gk. pater, L. pater, O.Pers. pita, O.Ir. athir "father")
The word POPE discloses how the idea of FATHER in the ancient Roman Empire with their spoken language of Latin made SYSTEMS OF HUMAN POWER AND CONTROL using a vocabulary base. Latin originated from more ancient languages of Greek, Persian or Sanskrit from India... and molded into the Latin language custom made to BUILD EMPIRES and own humans as pieces of personal property.
PATRIARCHAL VS MATRIARCHAL CULTURES
Native Americans on the other hand have a MATRIARCHAL CULTURE. Russell Means from the Lakota Reservation has some really good YouTube videos on this subject area:
For example, warriors needed the counsel of OLD WOMEN before they took off for war! Such a cultural practice would definitely CUT DOWN on the number of wars our nation is now involved with from African, the Mideast and all the undercover wars in Central and South America, Pakistan, etc.
AM I A NOUN OR A VERB???
Back in the late 1980's I was told by a Lakota that my 'energy name' was FIRE WIND WALKER. I always chuckle because my name was NOT 'Little White Dove'. My brother Chris's name is ONE BEAR.
I also have said my energy name could have been "Totally Worn Out White Woman" ... and my energy name can transform throughout the day!
THE HUMAN IS NOT A NOUN ... THE HUMAN IS AN ENERGY SYSTEM!!
I am an energy system currently manifested in the slower vibrational zone where in optic nerve is limited to the visual spectrum of electromagnetic energy providing us with the word RAINBOW ( White light is dispersed by a prism into the colors of the optical spectrum).
early 13c., "skin color, complexion," from O.Fr. color "color, complexion, appearance" (Mod.Fr. couleur), from L. color "color of the skin; color in general, hue; appearance," from Old L. colos, originally "a covering" (akin to celare "to hide, conceal"), from PIE root *kel- "to cover, conceal" (see cell). For sense evolution, cf. Skt.varnah "covering, color," related to vrnoti "covers," and cf. chroma. Meaning "visible color, color of something" is attested in English from c.1300. As "color as a property of things," from late 14c. O.E. words for "color" were hiw, bleo. The verb is from late 14c.; earliest use is figurative. Related: Colored; coloring.
COLOR is another of our COMMON English words that traveled from Italy and the ancient Roman Empire and LATIN and NOT from the Germanic vocabulary of those on the British Isles prior to them becoming the conquered in 1066AD (Norman Conquest). VERY CRUCIAL DATE in understanding the legal system in our own nation TODAY!
late O.E. wimman (pl. wimmen), lit. "woman-man," alteration of wifman (pl. wifmen), a compound of wif "woman" (see wife) + man "human being" (in O.E. used in ref. to both sexes; see man). Cf. Du. vrouwmens "wife," lit. "woman-man." The formation is peculiar to English and Dutch. Replaced older O.E. wif, quean as the word for "female human being." The pronunciation of the singular altered in M.E. by the rounding influence of -w-; the plural retains the original vowel. Meaning "wife," now largely restricted to U.S. dial. use, is attested from mid-15c. Women's liberation is attested from 1966; women's rights is from 1840, with an isolated example in 1630s.
The issue of women as PROPERTY owned by males is a historic subject area in Western Civilization. MATRIARCHAL CULTURES seem to be few and far between!! And 'woman's liberation' was the result of think tanks focusing upon getting the females into the work place ... and OUT of the home. And, our culture discloses two cars in driveways and children dropped off at daycare ... DAYCARE a word invented in 1964 and accommodates TWO parents working outside the home .... credit cards, mortgages, etc.
And, back to my issue with how our culture has MESSED AROUND with TIME. The humanly created binary of:
DAY AND NIGHT .... EQUALS A DAY of 24 hours
and discloses one again the USE of the English language for those creating personal power systems (USING other human beings being controlled by the human made invention of a CLOCK - as in TIME CLOCK you punch).
DAY is an English word originating from ANCIENT SANSKRIT of India with the meaning "to burn". NIGHT is the word that finds COMMON LINEAGE because NIGHT was the dividing line ... why the Sabbath BEGINS AT SUNSET!!
O.E. niht (W.Saxon neaht, Anglian næht, neht), the vowel indicating that the modern word derives from oblique cases (gen. nihte, dat. niht), from P.Gmc. *nakht- (cf. O.H.G. naht, O.Fris., Du., Ger. nacht, O.N. natt, Goth. nahts), from PIE *nok(w)t- (cf. Gk. nuks "a night," L. nox, O.Ir. nochd, Skt. naktam "at night," Lith. naktis"night," O.C.S. nosti, Rus. noch', Welsh henoid "tonight").
The fact that the Aryans have a common name for night, but not for day (q.v.), is due to the fact that they reckoned by nights. [Weekley]
In early times, the day was held to begin at sunset, so O.E.monanniht"Monday night" was the night before Monday, or what we would callSunday night.
.................................. enough of my discourse on TIME and how Western Civilization has been constructed to provide laborers for those wealthy in a PATRIARCHAL CULTURE that has now existed for millenniums ... a culture that does not honor their children or the weak and vulnerable.
Back in the 1980's I said that a tribe of baboons honor mothers with children more than humans in our society. When threatened baboons will encircle and protect such mothers with young ... in our culture they become welfare moms. And, children learn SO EARLY the difference between rich and poor. Some children being more VALUABLE than others based upon income of their parents. Our legal system finds its root system growing out of the LATIN language spoken and written in the ancient Roman Empire that carried in slaves from their people ... and their skin color was 'white' (those that spoke Gallic or Germanic languages). NOT all slaves were black!
And, today our nation is ruled by the CLOCK ... but then there is ME ... FIRE WIND WALKER. And I smile .... and I see the beginning of my new day beginning at SUNSET ... and daylight savings times has NO CONTROL over the rotation of this planet! I do NOT need a clock to hold awareness of SUNSET!! LOVE IT.
There is no reason for anyone to feel discouraged by his weaknesses or deficiencies, or by his actions that have dissatisfied him, or by anything in life that has failed. He should forget the past that has failed him, and begin to construct and mold his future as he would wish it to be. Considering that as a branch is not separate from the bough, and the bough is not separate from the stem, so with all our limitations we are not separate from the will of the Unlimited One.
I remember a Persian verse made by my murshid which relates to the self: 'When I feel that now I can make peace with my self, it finds time to prepare another attack.' That is our condition. We think that our little faults, since they are small, are of no consequence; or we do not even think of them at all. But every little fault is a flag for the little self, for its own dominion. In this way battling makes man the sovereign of the kingdom of God. Very few can realize the great power in battling with and conquering the self.
But what does man generally do? He says, 'My poor self, it has to withstand the conflicts of this world; should I also battle with this self?' So he surrenders his kingdom to his little self, depriving himself of the divine power that is in the heart of man. There is in man a false self and a real self. The real self contains the eternal; the false self contains the mortal. The real self has wisdom; the false self ignorance. The real self can rise to perfection; the false self ends in limitation. The real self has all good, the false self is productive of all evil. One can see both in oneself: God and the other one. By conquering the other one, one realizes God. This other power has been called Satan; but is it a power? In reality it is not. It is and it is not. It is a shadow. We see shadow and yet it is nothing. We should realize that this false self has no existence of its own. As soon as the soul has risen above the false self, it begins to realize its nobility.
Man forms his future by his actions; his every good or bad action spreads its vibrations and becomes known throughout the universe.
by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
According to the ideas of the mystics the world in which we make our life is an Akasha, and Akasha means capacity. It is pictured by them as a dome; and whatever is spoken in it has its echo. Therefore no one can do, say, or think anything for one moment which will become non-existent. It is recorded; and that record is creative. It is not only what one does, says, or thinks that is recorded in the memory or in the atmosphere, but that record also creates at every moment, so that every line and letter of it becomes the seed or the germ that produces a similar effect.
The law of cause and effect is as definite in its results in the realm of speech and thought as in the physical world. ... Man forms his future by his actions. His every good or bad action spreads its vibrations and becomes known throughout the universe. The more spiritual a man is, the stronger and clearer are the vibrations of his actions, which spread over the world and weave his future.
Wherever a person goes there he takes his influence, thereby creating harmony or inharmony in the atmosphere. As a person who is drunken feels most delighted to see another person also drunken in the same way as he, and enjoys his company and offers him a drink, so the inharmonious person creates inharmony, and so the harmonious person spreads the vibrations of harmony, tuning the whole atmosphere to the pitch of his soul.
~~~ "Sangatha I, Tasawwuf", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)
Wisdom is intelligence in its pure essence, which is not necessarily dependent upon the knowledge of names and forms.
by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Often people confuse the two terms intellect and wisdom; sometimes they use the word intellect for wisdom, sometimes wisdom for intellect. In point of fact these are two different qualities altogether. The knowledge which is learned by knowing names and forms in the outside world belongs to the intellect; but there is another source of knowledge, and that source of knowledge is within oneself.
The words 'within oneself' might confuse some people. They might think 'within oneself' means inside one's body; but that is because man is ignorant of himself. Man has a very poor idea of himself, and this keeps him in ignorance of his real self. If man only knew how large, how wide, how deep, how high is his being, he would think, act, and feel differently; but with all his width, depth, and height, if man is not conscious of them he is as small as he thinks himself to be.
The essence of milk is butter, the essence of the flower is honey, the essence of grapes is wine, and the essence of life is wisdom. Wisdom is not necessarily a knowledge of names and forms; wisdom is the sum total of that knowledge which one gains both from within and without.
Intellectual knowledge has much to do with the brain, while wisdom comes from within the heart. In wisdom both head and heart work. One may call the brain the seat of the intellect, and the heart the throne of wisdom; but they are not actually located in the brain or in the heart. Wisdom may be called spiritual knowledge but the best definition of wisdom would be perfect knowledge, the knowledge of life within and without. How does one pursue the wisdom which is within? By first realizing that intuition exists within oneself. ...
It is not meant by this that everyone should become a kind of super-being. It is not meant at all that people should be able to perform wonders or miracles; it is only intended that they should live a fuller life and become real human beings, in order to bring about better conditions in the world. What do we want? We want human beings. It is not necessary that everyone should become religious, or exceedingly pious, or too good to live. We want wise men in business, in politics, in education, in all walks of life; those who do not live only on the surface and those who do not believe only in matter, but who see life both within and without. It is such souls who will produce beauty; it is such souls who will harmonize the world, who will bring about the conditions we need today.
Love brought man from the world of unity to that of variety, and the same force can take him back again to the world of unity from the world of variety.
, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Sufis take the course of love and devotion to accomplish their highest aim, because it is love which has brought man from the world of unity to the world of variety, and the same force can take him back again to the world of unity from that of variety.
Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God. (Balzac)
Love is that state of mind in which the consciousness of the lover is merged in that of the object of his love; it produces in the lover all the attributes of humanity, such as resignation, renunciation, humility, kindness, contentment, patience, virtue, calmness, gentleness, charity, faithfulness, bravery, by which the devotee becomes harmonized with the Absolute. As one of God's beloved, a path is opened for his heavenly journey: at the end he arrives at oneness with God, and his whole individuality is dissolved in the ocean of eternal bliss where even the conception of God and man disappears.
Seeing the nature and character of life the Sufi says that it is not very important to distinguish between two opposites. What is most important is to recognize that One which is hiding behind it all. Naturally after realizing life the Sufi climbs the ladder which leads him to unity, to the idea of unity which comes through the synthesis of life, by seeing One in all things, in all beings. ... in whatever age the wise were born, they have always believed the same: that behind all is oneness, and in the understanding of that oneness is wisdom. A person who awakens to the spirit of unity, a person who sees the oneness behind all things - his point of view becomes different and his attitude therefore changes. He no longer says to his friend, 'I love you because you are my friend'; he says, 'I love you because you are my self'.
"All tragedy of life, all misery and inharmony are caused by one thing and that is lack of understanding. Lack of understanding comes from lack of penetration. The one who does not see from the point of view from which he ought to see becomes disappointed because he cannot understand. It is not for the outer world to help us to understand life better; it is we ourselves who should help ourselves to understand it better."
