A tale from Attar of Nishapur:
The lover knocked at the door of his beloved. “Who knocks?” said the beloved from within. “It is I,” said the lover. “Go away. This house will not hold you and me.”
The rejected lover went away into the desert. There he meditated for months on end, pondering the words of the beloved. Finally he returned and knocked at the door again.
“Who knocks?”
“It is you.”
The door was immediately opened.
“100 percent and 100 percent,” I said. “They cannot be separated.”
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A mystic returned to his community after months of being in the desert in contemplation.
“Tell us about your encounters with the Divine,” they said. “Tell us what God is like.”
There is a sentiment that consistently comes up in my conversations lately. People have ideas, they have visions for something better, they have intentions… and they wonder how to get there from here. My answer is very often, “Just do it. It’s not that complicated.”
Nathan Bettger | Oshkosh, WI 