Peace comes first within the souls of people when they realize their oneness
with All That Is. When they realize the Source of Creation is a circle of
conscious energy whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
When they realize that at the center of that circle dwells that same Creator
which is "within each of us."
If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how
free from any grudge against the religion of others.
Bowl of Saki, January 8, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
The (limited) happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just
like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get
it, you see it is not the thing you wanted. That discontent continues its work
till we have found and understood the manifestation of God, in which is hidden
the Divine Spirit. God cannot be found in temples, for God is Love; and love
does not live in temples, but in the heart of man, which is the temple of God.
The true religion would be to recognize it is so and to tolerate, to forgive and
to love each other.
There is a story told of Moses. One day he was passing through a farm, and he
saw a peasant boy sitting quietly and talking to himself, saying, 'O God, I love
you so; if I saw you here in these fields I would bring you soft bedding and
delicious dishes to eat, I would take care that no wild animals could come near
you. You are so dear to me, and I so long to see you; if you only knew how I
love you I am sure you would appear to me!'
Moses heard this, and said, 'Young man, how dare you speak of God in this way?
He is the formless God, and no wild beast or bird could injure Him who guards
and protects all.' The young man bent his head sorrowfully and wept. Something
was lost to him, and he felt most unhappy. And then a revelation came to Moses
as a voice from within which said, 'Moses, what have you done? You have
separated a sincere lover from Me. What does it matter what I am called or how I
am spoken to? Am I not in all forms?'
This story throws a great light on this question, and teaches that it is only
the ignorant who accuse one another of a wrong conception of God. It teaches us
how gentle we ought to be with the faith of another; as long as he has the spark
of the love of God, this spark should be slowly blown upon so that the flame may
rise; if not, that spark will be extinguished. How much the spiritual
development of mankind in general depends upon a religious man! He can either
spread the light or diminish it by forcing his belief on others.
Very often a person thinks that other people should believe in and worship his
God. But everyone has his own conception of God, and this conception becomes the
stepping-stone to the true ideal of God.
Nature teaches every soul to worship God in some way or other, and often
provides that which is suitable for each. Those who want one law to govern all
have lost sight of the spirit of their own religion. And it is in people who
have not yet learned their own religion that such ideas are commonly found. Did
they but know their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free
from any grudge against the religion of others!
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From: Edie Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Sat, 1 January, 2011 14:36:42
Subject: NEW YEAR GREETINGS
MESSAGES FROM THE ANGELS: It doesn’t matter who send a message but what it
entails matters most and how it fits your desires.
As you ring in the New Year, remember that in every moment, with every breath
you breathe - your life begins anew. With every thought you think, you have the
capacity to change your entire future. With every moment you can choose to place
your focus you can look at what is beautiful and true, or what is difficult and
impermanent. With every second in time, you truly begin to recreate your own
reality. No matter what you have experience in the year, or indeed years past,
you begin your life anew each and every moment in time.
And so, dear ones, Happy New Year, as we celebrate this passage of time with
humanity, but also Happy New You! With every breath you breathe, Happy New You!
With every thought you think, Happy New You! With every choice you make towards
greater love, Happy Wonderful Amazing New You! God dose not judge, keep score,
hold you accountable for choices you have made in the past, punish you, reward
you, or even see anything but the real you, which is eternally beautiful,
loving, abundant, and already enlightened! God sees you only through the eyes of
love. As you continue to learn to see yourself this way - lovingly, with
compassion, forgiveness, gentleness, and tenderness, so too your reality will
begin to shift into a more loving reality.
In 2011, find your heaven by choosing to love yourself first. Choose to forgive
yourself for choices in your past that did not turn out as you wished. Forgive
yourself for not living up to your own standards. Choose to be compassionated
towards yourself, tender, gentle, and kind. Forego self criticism. Simply learn
and move on. Learn and move on. For in each moment, as you choose to love
yourself and be kind to yourself, you tell the universe to do the very same.
If you went bankrupt last year, stop looking back and revel in your newfound
state of simplicity. If you lost a relationship last year, celebrate the new and
better possibilities for your life. If you lost a loved one, celebrate their
joyous arrival among family and friends in the heavens. If you had family
challenges, celebrate your own ever loving heart that cares enough to want to
create a greater state of love in your own life. If you were stressed,
overwhelmed, and overloaded, celebrate the fact that you care enough to want
more balance in your life and begin to change your habits. If you had health
issues remember a time when you felt good and have that be your point of focus.
Thank God for the lessons in the challenges, learn them, and be prepared to move
on.
Dear ones, there is always something wonderful to see in each moment! Find
that. Focus upon it, and the next moment, and the next, and indeed your entire
future will begin to unfold more kindly.
We love you dear ones. Our prayer for you in this coming year is that you would
get to know the great love of God within you, that you would know truly and
deeply how much each and every one of you is loved; that you would ask your
angels for more help, and relax a little more, knowing that your prayers can
easily be answered if you give them to God. Rather than fretting and worrying
this year, joyously away, with great anticipation, the magic that is sure to
unfold in your lives when your hearts remain so dearly and expectantly open to
God's love. For indeed dear friends, that is what you are made to observe in
this world.
Happy New Year! Happy New You!
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From: Edie Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wed, 29 December, 2010 21:35:26
Subject: opinion (Daffeh on Musa Jeng's compromise)
My opinion on this issue as UDP is the biggest party therefore every other party
should follow them. This reality is the same reason that UDP should be flexible
towards smaller parties to join them to a smooth victory. For-example; Yahya
Jammeh wanted to be a king and he is having the largest majority in house of
parliament, but without the support of the smaller house members, it will never
go smoothly if it was constitutional. Therefore, UDP should be ready to create
a strategy of compromise and give smaller parties a good reason than saying I am
bigger than you.
This is the same old African style of politics taken roots from the way many
where brought-up as such; I can never have a voice in front of my parents or
someone elder than I am or richer than me because they are bigger or elder than
me. To counter these, Colonial masters or the West brought out human right laws
to give voice to voiceless by reasoning and compromising, which to my
understanding is aimed at Africans as we can see, they are the continent taking
the hardest blows. What I am trying to say here is the fact that, it is the
bigger party who should be able to mobilize strategies to including the smaller
parties by leading them to a concrete and profound understanding towards
unification to suit each and everyone. UDP can call every political or
opposition leaders to put their agenda in front of them for scrutiny and way
forwards.
Even the unity that prevails in other countries was not only the mightiness of
the party but the strategies behind which convince the smaller parties to join
the bigger one. PDOIS is to my opinion skeptical that if UDP is joined to win,
they can at the end of the day, clinch to power beyond the mandated term and
this same probability is what the UDP is skeptical of in selecting a neutral
person and after two years, different parties can disunite to campaign in
replacing the agreed caretaker. In every joint venture, in every corporation,
the bigger company or person no matter how rich or big, compromises in different
ways than bigness with the smaller person or companies. MY WAY OR THE HIGH WAY
will never win any viable argument or disagreement.
When we start to question the purpose of life at some point in time, we tend to
incline ourselves to a specific faith or religion, to seek the Truth. Here lies
the irony. When we seek the Truth by imitating what we should and should not do,
we moved ourselves further away from understanding the nature of existence, from
Truth, so to speak. We imitate what great masters have shared instead of
learning to understand what they are trying to convey (read a person is more
beneficial than quoting him). So instead of moving closer to Truth, we are in
fact moving further from Truth. I therefore, stood in the world of Gambian
politicians and found them all drunk, and I did not find any of them thirsty
thus. They came into the world of politic empty, and they seeking to leave
empty. But meanwhile they are drunk by their own ambition different from that of
the many population (UNITY). When they could just shake off their wine, they
will surely open their eyes (after election).
UDP is the bigger party and will remain the bigger party for a long time,
therefore it is still in their advantage if a neutral person is selected for a
limited time just to procure the changes of government needed then before the
end of the term, all parties can campaign on their respective platform to win
the confidence of the people. With their divisions going towards the election
time, president Jammeh will surely win, and even if he doesn’t win who will
notice the fact that there is biasness or unfairness as the opposition is
disunited and one bigger party cannot fight it alone but if they are united,
there comes power because no one is thereby left behind. If there is no
greediness or selfishness as an hidden agenda, this should not be complicated
especially when the people’s benefits are on the stake. Bigness or power is
nothing but oneness or togetherness is everything. If bigness (power) is
everything smaller people or companies will be in a difficult situation.
Therefore, taking advantage of others using your power without compromise is
against the laws of human right what?? Or is it other wise oooops? Edi
Now let me share with you a parable by the wise Rumi, adapted by Osho, another
wise soul:
One day Jalaluddin Rumi took all his students, disciples and devotees to a
field. That was his way to teach them things of the beyond, through the examples
of the world. He was not a theoretician; he was a very practical man. The
disciples were thinking, "What could be the message, going to that faraway
field… and why can't he say it here?"
But when they reached the field, they understood that they were wrong and he was
right. The farmer seemed to be almost an insane man. He was digging a well in
the field – and he had already dug eight incomplete wells.
He would go a few feet and then he would find that there was no water. Then he
would start digging another well and the same story was continued. He had
destroyed the whole field and he had not yet found water.
The master, Jalaluddin Rumi, told his disciples, "Can you understand something?
If this man had been total and had put his whole energy into only one well, he
would have reached to the deepest sources of water long ago.
But the way he is going he will destroy the whole field and he will never be
able to make a single well. With so much effort he is simply destroying his own
land, and getting more and more frustrated, disappointed: what kind of a desert
has he purchased? It is not a desert, but one has to go deep to find the sources
of water."
He turned to his disciples and asked them, "Are you going to follow this insane
farmer? Sometimes on one path, sometimes on another path, sometimes listening to
one, sometimes listening to another… you will collect much knowledge, but all
that knowledge is simply junk, because it is not going to give you the
enlightenment you were looking for. It is not going to lead you to the waters of
eternal life."
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