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A Gift Of Love: Deepak Choopra Music Inspired By The Love Poems Of Rumi,
1-Bittersweet 2- I Am Yours 3- Behind the Scenes 4- Looking for Your Face 5- The Agony and Ecstasy of Divine Discontent
Some 1400 years ago in China, the Empress Wu became fascinated with the relationship between the essential Oneness and the apparent multiplicity of life. She asked the sage Fa Tsang if he could give a simple practical demonstration to help her understand. Fa Tsang arranged one of the palace rooms so that eight large mirrors stood at the eight points of the compass. He then placed a further mirror on the floor, and another on the ceiling.
A candle was suspended in the centre of the room, and the Empress was invited in. Fa Tsang then lit the candle and the room was filled with the splendour of reflected light. The Empress Wu was awed and overcome by the beauty of this vision. “You see, your majesty,” said Fa Tsang. “This is the one and the many. The candle is the One Consciousness of God, and the reflections are the many individual consciousnesses of his creation.” The soul is a reflection of One Consciousness. In a sense it is individual, yet it could not be said to exist independently. Indeed, the source and the reflection are the same light.
The Complete Guide to World Mysticism, Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy.
At a formal function, Mullah Nasrudin entered the reception and seated himself upon one of the most impressive-looking chairs at the front. The Head Steward spotted the Mullah’s humble attire and hurried over.
“Sir, these seats are reserved for the guests of honour.”
“Oh good,” replied Nasrudin confidently, “because I am more than a mere guest.”
“Oh, so are you a diplomat?” asked the steward with a raised eyebrow.
“Much more than that!” smiled Nasrudin
“Really? So you are a minister, perhaps?”
“No, bigger than that too.”
“Aha! Then you must be the King himself” said the Steward sarcastically.
“Higher than that!”
“What?! Higher than the King? Nobody is higher than the King in this village!”
“Now you have it,” exclaimed Mullah Nasrudin, “I am nobody!”
“The walls of religion are falling and their foundations have cracked. Let us come together, O people of the earth and rebuild what was ruined, reestablish what fell!
This is not acceptable. O Sun! O Moon! O Day! All of you come! O People, the religion is crying for aid and assistance, holding its hands above its head in its distress due to all the profligates, insolent ones, innovators, perverters of the Divine Law, the heedless folk, the unjust and tyrannical, those who falsify the Divine Knowledge and lay claim to it when in fact it is not in their hands.”
Abdul Qadir Jilani
12th century Baghdad
If you think you’re beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you’d like to win, but think you can’t,
It’s almost for sure, you won’t.
If you think you’re losing, you’ve lost.
For out in the world we find -
Success begins with a person’s will,
It’s all in the state of mind.
If you think you’re outclassed, you are,
You’ve got to think high to rise.
You have to stay with it,
In order to win the prize.
Life’s battles don’t always go,
To the one with the better plan.
For more often than not, you will win,
If only you think you can.
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