SUFFI WISDOM

Suffi's are mystics that are a branch of Islam.
They love to meditate but also to damce.  When they dance they wear long full robes that billow all around them.  The right hand is lifted gracefully to heaven will the left hand is open to the soul of the earth.  By doing this they feel the presence of the holy in some mysterious way as for me I would just get dizzy.  I am dizzy even thinking about it! 

Rumi is a 14th centuary poet that was a Suffi.

"Past and present are shutters covering the window through which streams the sunlight of God.".

"How long are you going to worry [that's me] about what has already happened and cannot be changed and what is yet to come and cannot be controlled?"

Control freaks make themselves miserable and also those they live with.  Trust is the attitude we need to develop as we remind ourselves; in my life right now there is absolutely nothing really bad happening.  So I can stop muttering to myself and start enjoying the day.

"So many people SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF AND COMPLETELY LOSE TOUCH WITH THE MAGIC AND BEAUTY OF LIFE."  Richard Car;son. Ph.D

"When we accept each moment as a new opportunity for fulfilling our purpose, we are always present, always succeeding, always changing the world for the better."  Rabbi David A. Cooper

". . . .for the meaning of happiness consists in three elements
freedom, gratitude, and the sense of wonder.
These three elements can be present in the most ordinary of lives,
the free man is not necessarily a magician, a seer or a mystic. . . . "
Alan Watts from "THE MEANING OF HAPPINESS. . . . "

I am amazed that one could quite literally quote from different sources and the same thought is expressed.
Yet even with the wisdom of the sages and our modern day philosophers our language has an inadequacy and even our brains are limited by what it cannot see or understand.  Before the telescope was invented  the sky was a different place and we were limited by what we could see with our eyes. 

Does God exist?  Can I see him [or her]? , can I hear him?  can I feel him?   Neither science or religion can prove there is a God but those who have experienced the presence of his Spirit Have a knowing.