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e big lie that underlies the western culture on so many levels but when you speak the plain truth out loud the energy that carries your spoken words to the ears of a listener is of a particular vibration or frequency this is the frequency of truth and the universe is behind you in ralph waldo emerson s words speak the truth and all things alive or brute are vouchers and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness harvard divinity address of course sometimes you need to tell a little white lie to avoid hurting someone s feelings or say to get yourself the timeout you need but speaking the truth should be something like a minimum requirement of decency which should be inculcated from the childhood obviously reality is different and when you speak the truth you must expect the worst and assume that it will happen yet nothing will be the same afterwards as if a curtain had fallen as in the story the emperor s new clothes posted by s r piccoli a 12 24 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette literature quote of the day july 16 2018 prepare to submerge yourself in silence someone maybe from an atheistic point of view once said faith isn t a virtue it s the glorification of voluntary ignorance well no truer words were ever written or spoken read this st ephrem the syrian s sermon on faith if you don t believe that s the case and prepare to submerge yourself in silence the sea is mighty if you want to fathom it you will be overwhelmed by the force of its waves one wave can sweep you away and dash you against a cliff suffice it oh feeble being to be able to trade in a boat faith is better for you than a boat on the sea the boat in fact is guided by a rudder but the tide can sink it your faith cannot sink if your will does not wish it so how desirable for the sailor to be able to manage the sea as he likes he thinks in one way the sea acts in another manner only our lord held sway over the sea so that it became silent and stopped raging he also gave you the power to dominate a sea and calm it mightier than the sea is arguing and disputing is more violent than the waves if the wind of inquiry rages in your mind reprimand it and calm its billows the storm tosses the sea about your quibbles perturb your mind our lord issues an order the wind dies down and the boat slips peacefully through the sea control and bridle inquiry and your faith will be at peace the creatures whose use you know should convince you of that for instance you are unable to relinquish a drink even if you collapse at the spring having drunk from springs you do not surely think you have taken them all in you also fail before the sun and yet you are not deprived of its light by the fact that it comes down to you with its rays you do not desire to reach its height although the air is quite extensive for you a little bit of it provides you with life although it is your pledge you ignore how great its mass is you receive from creatures their limited help and service and leave their vast unknown treasures in the chest do not disdain what is less nor long for that which is more let these creatures of the creator instruct you about the creator himself you should boldly ask his help and shy away from sophistry about him accept the life of divine majesty but do not probe it love the father s goodness but do not scrutinize his essence yearn after and love the son s blessedness but do not inquire about his eternal birth long for the presence of the holy spirit but do not try to fathom him the father son and holy spirit are registered by their names ponder their names and do not mull over their content if you want to scrutinize their essence you are lost if you believe in the name you are safe let the father s name be a limit for you do not surpass it trying to plumb his nature let the son s name be a wall for you do not try to scale it to scrutinize his generation let the holy spirit s name be for you a hedge do not enter in order to understand these names will be a limit for you and with them stop every investigation you have heard the names and their reality turn to the commandments you have perceived the laws and the commandments turn now to your way of living you have accomplished it perfectly then turn to the promises do not neglect the commandments to apply yourself to what is not prescribed you have heard the truth in manifested realities do not go astray in the case of hidden things truth is proclaimed in few words do not search it with lengthy probes save your effort by being silent o frail being posted by s r piccoli a 12 33 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette religion june 1 2018 under the linden tree have you ever enjoyed the smell of linden trees in late spring to early summer sweet heady totally overwhelming with their aroma in the northeast of italy these majestic trees also known as lime trees though with no connection to the fruit or basswoods usually blossom between the end of may and the beginning of june every time it s the same wonderful olfactive experience only god knows how much i love this time of the year the scent is so strong that you can smell it hundreds of yards away actually the odor is more pronounced further from the source as soon as you get out or open the windows to let in the light of the day or the cool air of the night the gentle and pervasive smell of linden trees spreads everywhere and reigns supreme it s something magical it s a kind of urban miracle that transforms the town into a scene that wouldn t look out of place in a fairy tale walther von der vogelweide not for nothing in china the linden is named the tree of forgetfulness because its energy is soft gentle and it offers the sensation of warmth and peace it s also interesting that in the hellenic period of egypt the masks of the sarcophagus of fayoum were made of linden wood which proves the sacred nature of this tree since ancient times and that in the mythology of ancient rome it was a symbol of marital love and fidelity in the couple in turn in slavic mythology the linden was considered a sacred tree in polish folklore the belief still exists that the linden tree planted in front of a house protects the family from the evil spirits while the germans considered it as a sacred tree of the lovers because it had the capacity to give fertility and prosperity the linden tree also appears as a romantic symbol in medieval poetry for example there is a medieval love poem called unter der linden under the lime tree which is one of walther von der vogelweide s best known pieces in it a naïve common class girl rejoices in her love experience under the linden tree the crushed flowers still showing the place where the couple had lain i m quoting it because i think this is an appropriate way to celebrate the linden tree 1 under the lime tree on the heather where we had shared a place of rest still you may find there lovely together flowers crushed and grass down pressed beside the forest in the vale tándaradéi sweetly sang the nightingale 2 i came to meet him at the green there was my truelove come before such was i greeted heaven s queen that i am glad for evermore had he kisses a thousand some tándaradéi see how red my mouth s become 3 there he had fashioned for luxury a bed from every kind of flower it sets to laughing delightedly whoever comes upon that bower by the roses well one may tándaradéi mark the spot my head once lay 4 if any knew he lay with me may god forbid for shame i d die what did he do may none but he ever be sure of that and i and one extremely tiny bird tándaradéi who will i think not say a word modern english translation by raymond oliver posted by s r piccoli a 4 38 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette literature quote of the day may 3 2018 do not cast your pearls before swine rudeness is a contagious behavior that spreads rapidly and as we all know is rampant everywhere nowadays edmund burke once said that rudeness is the weak man s imitation of strength perhaps this suggests that given the widespread diffusion of such contagious behaviors weak people are the majority of humans be that as it may however well mannered and kind people are becoming increasingly rare at the same time it must be said that often the ruder they are the more demanding of other people s time and attention they are clearly they take too much for granted fortunately though there are many antidotes to rudeness and oafish behavior and i think i can say without fear of contradiction that i know some of them very well one and perhaps the most effective is minimizing the contact opportunities with rude people you have certainly heard the expression do not cast your pearls before swine which is part of a famous gospel passage matthew 7 6 give not that which is holy unto the dogs neither cast your pearls before the swine lest haply they trample them under their feet and turn and rend you for a correct understanding of the metaphor please note that the jewish law regarded swine and wild dogs as unclean and unfit for close human contact very likely because they were dirty unkempt lice infested and prone to attack or cause trouble well that s not only a great gospel passage but also an inspirational piece of advice for everyday life in fact one of the possible meanings in a lay sense of the metaphor could be that we should not waste our time and energy on people who rebuff the rules of well mannered behavior and live by the rules of the worst selfishness self aggrandizement and callous disregard of others including the manipulative use of others for one s own ends of course the gospel doesn t say that we have to despise the dogs and swine those who don t recognize something holy for what it is and people who don t show discretion appreciation or discernment of the metaphor and even less that we can treat them like garbage similarly we must be patient and open minded towards other people s feelings and opinions but at the same time we must be firm on principles all emotions are acceptable not all behaviors are not everything is justifiable this means that we have the right and duty to sanction bad conduct when it occurs the above mentioned sanction makes it so that we give the right message while protecting ourselves from an over exposure to other people s bad energy so to speak this is essentially a question of both ecology of mind and justice inextricably intertwined with each other of course there are a lot of other corrective actions but most of them seem to me to be either too extreme or too watered down and far less effective than that above mentioned posted by s r piccoli a 2 06 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette philosophy religion april 3 2018 out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field i ll meet you there when the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about ideas language even the phrase each other doesn t make any sense the breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you don t go back to sleep you must ask for what you really want don t go back to sleep people are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch the door is round and open don t go back to sleep the above quoted verse is from a rumi s poem called a great wagon here in the translation by coleman barks the essential rumi published by harpercollins in 1995 jalāl ad dīn muhammad rūmī more popularly simply known as rumi was a 13th century persian sunni muslim poet jurist islamic scholar theologian and sufi mystic his poems have been the best selling poetry in north america for at least two decades the most popular of them is probably a great wagon which is somehow representative of the image of rumi in the popular imagination of western readers as a mystic beyond the realm of religious dogma actually he wasn t by any means a mainstream muslim in particular he had a deeply transformative life experience his meeting with the dervish shams e tabrizi on november 15 1244 at the age of thirty seven that transformed an accomplished teacher and jurist into an ascetic and changed his traditional muslim worldview to an ecstatically mystical one which provided the main inspiration for his poetry it is certainly not without reason that rumi remains the most popular poet in america today as jawid mojaddedi points out to many who claim to be spiritual but not religious his poems represent direct spiritual connection with a higher power there is a lot of correspondence between the teachings of rumi and the increasing spiritual but not religious trend the popularity of both are undoubtedly related yet he continues there is a huge difference between prioritizing the feeling of peace through individualistic practice and developing spirituality under the training of a master as sufism teaches and rumi was himself a sufi even though neither need be religious in the conventional sense rumi has sometimes been compared to dante with whom he was contemporary even though dante was much younger than him when rumi died in 1273 dante was just eight years old what is certain is that both rumi and dante closed the middle ages because although their works are imbued with medieval thought they introduce new concepts about life love compassion and religion it s also certain that according to both dante and rumi beauty is a fundamental element in the road to truth while love is the only way towards salvation as nour seblini puts it on mystical metamorphosis in christianity and islam dante s divine comedy and rumi s masnavi in comparative perspective a search for absolute morals expressed with intense emotions and a spiritual ardor is a value shared in rumi s masnavi and dante s divine comedy the most influential medieval works of the east and west respectively their inner selves undergo a purifying process from sins and get beautified with traits that permit their union with the divine love transforms the human heart by purifying its mirror and consequently prepares it to attract the divine its personification comes in the figure of shamsoddin of tabriz that reflects the sun of truth for rumi while for dante what is synonymous with such kind of love is the figure of beatrice both poets as it will be demonstrated in more details in this work present love as the divine essence making the beloved a fundamental element in human s search for the eternal in this way love becomes the animating spirit of mysticism which in turn lies at the very heart of dante s and rumi s work in the new life dante s declaration that ladies understand love s every way signals that love is the soul of knowledge dante the poet is seeking wholeness through love a thorough examination of his 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