"If anything other than God appears to you, it is the effect of God's illusion: and if all other than than God vanishes from your sight, it is the effect of God awakening you to the reality.
What is the attracting power, hidden in what is most hidden? What is it that shines forth in this world from its source in the other world?
The intellect is barred, and the spirit is also barred from access to this ambush; I cannot see it: see it if you can!"
Rumi (Vol.6, 3356-3361)
Commentary: I'm with Rumi on this one... we see miracles, all the time. But who understands where they originate?
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The Mathnawi, Jalalu'ddin Rumi's master work, is a 1200 page poem. Having studied it in an intensive tutorial with a Persian scholar, Dev Prakash in 1979, I am now rereading it 30 years later,using the Reynold Nicholson translation. My hope is that you will find these short selections speaking to your soul, as they do to mine.
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