It seems that the hardest thing to find is someone who will listen to you without judging you in the process.
Active listening in this sense means to be able to hear with your heart and try and understand what that person is going through without adding your reactions. The difficulty is in observing what your inner knowledge as well as outer experience can guide you with.
Tricky to walk that line, and put aside your own crap so you can be present for the other person.
Being present and not lost in your own past and future helps.
Also, we need to be there for each other, and to stay out of the way when someone needs us.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Now and Love
You know when you have a spiritual disease when you think you know what is right and wrong. Only God knows what is true and false. We do our best to follow the Prophet’s (pbuh) example. But there is no ultimate good and bad when it comes to human endeavors, because there are too many nafs and cross-purposes at play.
When you seek to defend your thoughts and actions using only books, you are accessing only a portion of what God has given you as guidance. The missing part is the Love factor.
Love is what brings you into the present moment, takes you outside and beyond your self, and gives you access to your spiritual heart, as well as direct knowledge that no book or quotation can come close to, except as a guidance and framework.
Why? Because this moment is unique. That means to be with God here and now you must make the ultimate sacrifice that only Love teaches: to trust Allah. This is called fearlessness. That is the goal of Religion: to bring you to the true knowledge which cannot fit into a book except the one that is being written at this moment.
The Koran, Torah and Gospels are incomplete. They are part of a circuit that you must fulfill through your words and action. What you say and do send ripples out that has consequences far beyond your comprehension.
It can be summed up in the constant interplay of wisdom and compassion; knowledge and love; or gnosis and Haqq al yaqin.
When you seek to defend your thoughts and actions using only books, you are accessing only a portion of what God has given you as guidance. The missing part is the Love factor.
Love is what brings you into the present moment, takes you outside and beyond your self, and gives you access to your spiritual heart, as well as direct knowledge that no book or quotation can come close to, except as a guidance and framework.
Why? Because this moment is unique. That means to be with God here and now you must make the ultimate sacrifice that only Love teaches: to trust Allah. This is called fearlessness. That is the goal of Religion: to bring you to the true knowledge which cannot fit into a book except the one that is being written at this moment.
The Koran, Torah and Gospels are incomplete. They are part of a circuit that you must fulfill through your words and action. What you say and do send ripples out that has consequences far beyond your comprehension.
It can be summed up in the constant interplay of wisdom and compassion; knowledge and love; or gnosis and Haqq al yaqin.
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