Thursday, February 7, 2008

'I asked Wali Ali about love'

" ... I asked Wali Ali about love.

“Sufism has been called the school of love, but it is not a school where it is particularly important to conceptualize what love is,” he said. “What is essential is to make it more and more a reality in one’s life, to realize it in all one’s relationships.

“Ultimately one may come to feel, as (the Sufi poet) Rumi has said, that the Beloved (God) is all in all, and the lover but a veil over the Beloved. It is a universal phenomenon that pulses through every particle of the universe and connects everything.” ... "

~From 'Sufism a school of mystical love' ~

 

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