"The path of love and the path of insight lead into the same garden."
I thought that was really beautiful and so enlightening. Love and truth and understanding all together.
The reading says, "When love is established in the heart of a servant of God, there is no place for remembrance of men or demons or Paradise or Hell, or for anything except the remembrance of the Beloved and his grace." That sounds really eloquent, but it doesn't quite make sense to me. It seems incomplete. Creation reveals parts of God to us, so why wouldn't it be in our hearts if we love God? It's part of the fulness of God. I would think it would be there, with an even clearer view than we had before God's love was established in our hearts.
The last paragraph talks about lovers of God, righteousness, wisdom, purity, God's care, serving, and bliss in living the good life. Those are common to many of the religions we've learned about. It is interesting that we basically desire the same things, regardless of our faith. Guess it makes sense though if God made us and put them there.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Al-Muhasibi
Posted by Theri's World Religion Blog at 5:11 PM
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I think that when Al-Muhasibi talks about having love established in our hearts and therefore there is no room for anything except God and his grace, that he doesn't negate that God is also within Creation. But I think what he means perhaps is that we no longer need to cling to the things of the material world when we have something beautiful already within us... if that makes any sense.
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