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Spirit News Blog - November 2007


I used to Shun My Companion
2007-11-28 17:47 | Posted by Tejvan Pettinger | Permanent Link | Poetry | 
I used to shun my companion
if his religion was not like mine;
but not my heart accepts every form.
It is a pasturage for gazelles, a monastery for monkss,
a temple of idols, a Ka'ba for the pilgrim,
the tables of the Torah, the holy book of the Qur'an.
Love alone is my religion, and whichever way
its horses turn, that is my faith and creed.

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From Music of a Distant Drum, Bernard Lewis - Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew Poems

The Secret Cannot Be Spoken in Silence
2007-11-18 17:30 | Posted by Tejvan Pettinger | Permanent Link | Rumi |
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Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken
it is wrapped in silence."
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