Fr. Richard Rohr in his January 9 "Daily Meditation" quotes Matthew Fox, a prophetic teacher, as describing God as One as such (and I've lifted Rohr's word in toto):
"From Hinduism we hear: 'Many are the paths of humans, but they all in the end come to Me.' ... In the Bhagavad Gita, God says: 'I am the thread that runs through the pearls, as in a necklace.'
"Rumi, the Sufi mystic from the Moslem tradition, grounds the likeness found in every mystical tradition to the depth of the experience of the Divine one touches in a particular tradition. Love is the key: 'For those in love, Moslem, Christian, and Jew do not exist....Why listen to those who see it another way? --if they're not in love--their eyes do not exist.'
"From the Buddhist tradition, Thich Nhat Hanh speaks of the centrality of going deep if we are to do inter-faith work when he says: 'Through the practice of deep looking and deep listening, we become free, able to see the beauty and values in our own and others' traditions.' Yet, to get to the point of seeing the beauty and value in others' traditions, one must look and listen deeply into one's own. One must practice some path along the journey that leads to depth. One must enter the well of mystical experience."
I have to keep everything as simple as possible so I'm working on sticking with Rumi's "love is the key" which encompasses forgiveness, surrender, patience...all the toughies in a word.
Thank you.
"From Hinduism we hear: 'Many are the paths of humans, but they all in the end come to Me.' ... In the Bhagavad Gita, God says: 'I am the thread that runs through the pearls, as in a necklace.'
"Rumi, the Sufi mystic from the Moslem tradition, grounds the likeness found in every mystical tradition to the depth of the experience of the Divine one touches in a particular tradition. Love is the key: 'For those in love, Moslem, Christian, and Jew do not exist....Why listen to those who see it another way? --if they're not in love--their eyes do not exist.'
"From the Buddhist tradition, Thich Nhat Hanh speaks of the centrality of going deep if we are to do inter-faith work when he says: 'Through the practice of deep looking and deep listening, we become free, able to see the beauty and values in our own and others' traditions.' Yet, to get to the point of seeing the beauty and value in others' traditions, one must look and listen deeply into one's own. One must practice some path along the journey that leads to depth. One must enter the well of mystical experience."
I have to keep everything as simple as possible so I'm working on sticking with Rumi's "love is the key" which encompasses forgiveness, surrender, patience...all the toughies in a word.
Thank you.
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