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Drudgery"While I yet stood in my first cause I had no God and I was my own; I willed nothing and wanted nothing, for I was conditionless being, the knower of myself in divine truth. Then I wanted myself and nothing else. What I willed I was and what I was I willed. I was free from God and all things. But when I escaped from my free will to take on my created nature, then I acquired a God, for before creatures came into existence, God was not God. He was what he was. When creatures came into existence, God was not God in himself, but he was God in creatures."
Meister Eckhart, Sermon 52 (via winged-serpent)
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Gnarly Dhikr
That’s no space station: Saturn’s moon Mimas, photographed by Cassini.
Mooji-on relationships
M.I.T. Computer Program Reveals Invisible Motion in Video
A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an image-enhancing software program that can reveal subtle fluctuations in colors and motions once thought to be invisible to the naked eye. Head over to the New York Times for more details on this story.
Power move.
The driving gloves make it.
I wish he was my spirit animal
“Locked in an eternal embrace”, In Mantua, Italy (also the town to which Romeo was banished in William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet), archaeologists revealed the discovery of a couple locked in a tender embrace, one that has endured for more than 5,000 years.
An initial examination of the couple - dubbed the Lovers of Valdaro - revealed that the man (on the left in the picture) has an arrow in his spinal column while the woman has an arrow head in her side.
You can read more about this find here
"It is an astonishing fact that, after more than 700 years, Jalaluddin Rumi is the most popular poet in America. This is largely due to American authors, such as the poet Coleman Barks who has rendered literal translations of Rumi into free verse “American spiritual poetry” in a manner which has reached so many different sectors of American society. One finds Rumi quotes following the titles of newsletters, on the bottom lines of e-mails, and in many different kinds of published articles. Many people have memorized their favorite lines — usually those rendered by Coleman Barks, because his versions communicate far more successfully than literal translations. The reasons for such a response are unclear, but it likely has to do with a certain “spiritual hunger” in America (perhaps due to an absence of a mystical and ecstatic dimension in general American spirituality).
Yet this popularization has had a price, and the price is a frequent distortion of Rumi’s words and teachings which permeate such well-selling books. The English “creative versions” rarely sound like Rumi to someone who can read the poems in the original Persian, and they are often shockingly altered— but few know this, and the vast majority of readers cannot but believe that such versions are faithful renderings into English of Rumi’s thoughts and teachings when they are not.
The public has been deceived by the publishers of many of the popular books, who proclaim their authors as “translators” of Rumi— when, in fact, very few of them can read Persian. Coleman Barks, from the very beginning, called his renderings “versions.” And he has consistently clarified, in both his books and poetry readings, that he doesn’t know Persian and works from the literal translations of others […] And he has been (and allows himself to be) promoted as “widely regarded as the world’s premier translator of Rumi’s writings…” Where did the idea come from that poets could “translate” spiritual poetry into English without knowing the original language?"
”[…] the intent of giving examples of defective interpretations (which include some of their most glaring errors) is to show how badly Rumi’s verses have been mangled by well-meaning individuals who tried to make dry, academic, and old-fashioned-sounding literal translations more poetic and attractive.”
Click on the link to read the complete article, which includes examples of poorly “translated” versions of Rumi’s poetry.
On Coleman Barks’ “versions” of Rumi’s poetry, Majid Naficy has noted that “Barks not only ‘frees’ Rumi from the historical limitations of his time, but he also tries to disconnect Rumi from the Islamic society in which he lived and the Persian language in which he wrote his poetry.”
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A transplant patient has been pictured holding her own heart in her hands after she survived cancer and organ failure.According to Kelsey’s profile, doctors allowed Penny to take a photograph with her dead heart before it was cremated.
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