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"... Move beyond any attachment to names." Every war
and every conflict between human beings has happened becauseof
some disagreement about names. It's such an unnecessary foolishness,
because just beyond the arguing there's a long table of companionship,
set and waiting for us to sit down. What is praised is one, so
the praise is one too,many jugs being pouredinto a huge basin.
All religions, all this singing,one song.The differences are just
illusion and vanity. Sunlight looks slightly differenton this
wall than it does on that wall and a lot different on this other
one, but it is still one light. We have borrowed these clothes,
these time-and-space personalities, from a light, and when we
praise, we pour them back in.
mevlana jelaluddin rumi - 13th century
translation by coleman
barks
To
water-bearers everywhere...
the world's on fire.
whatever form it takes for each of us,
we must not stop carrying
the water.
--from annie, october 2003
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