:nature-smiley-008:Just in case you need an extra dose
p.s. Congratulations on your 2000 th post :nature-smiley-008:
You're observant Trin! :p
Actually, seeing that HP has been redesigned three times and twice we started again from the beginning, and then there was once a horrible time (before I saved my researched and more serious posts) when a hacker got in and removed about 3 months of posts, I reckon I must have posted at least 6,000 times in the past 6 years! (I joined in Nov 2001, so must be one of the OLDEST members!)
So V, MBE might have picked up her Infinite Ocean of Love from Hindu thought in the general atmosphere - or more obviously, from divine revelation, which of course no-one has the monopoly on, but how they got that into "How The Saudi Government is using the Bush Administration and Alien Technology to Destroy America" I can't imagine! :confused:
Judy
So V, MBE might have picked up her Infinite Ocean of Love from Hindu thought in the general atmosphere - or more obviously, from divine revelation
What I really felt and meant, Judy, is that while you don't hear people talking like that on every street corner, in spiritual conversation its the kind of thing one could easily come out with. Really, I hear such a thing said often. 🙂 It takes a longer sentence or a paragraph I'd say to make one curious about 'Who copied from whom?'
but how they got that into "How The Saudi Government is using the Bush Administration and Alien Technology to Destroy America" I can't imagine! :confused:
Probably picked it up from MBE?
Seriously, it was a long article, so I didn't read down to see how on earth they fitted that phrase into that subject!
V
Just to add my tuppence...
I recall that line from ACIM very clearly, but have never come across it in the reading of Rumi poems I have done. Indeed, it seems a particularly un-Sufi-like sentiment to me - I always understood Sufism to encourage longing for God, as the most reliable path to God.
many blessings
Elinor
Hi Elinor,
Thank you for sharing 🙂
I remember reading that particular line in ACIM too.
It doesn't surprise me however that it would be mistaken for a Rumi line... the sufi poetry that resonates with me personally tends to invite us to open our hearts beyond the veil of illusion. I don't necessarily think that it is all about 'longing for God' in the literal sense of the matter either. This I feel is symbolic of the longing to remember who we truly are. Of course, poetry is an interpretation of someone's 'soul speak', which is ultimately beyond all words.
It does most definately feel like something Rumi would have conveyed in his poetry. I don't think that it is his line though. The evidence points towards it being ACIM. It is likely that it was misquoted and that misquote spread like wildfire across the internet.
Warm Regards
Trin