
“Return to the divine presence and make others return to it.”
Flow of Divine Guidance (vol.1)
Variant: Perceive the divine presence and be freed.
Flow of Divine Guidance (vol.1)
“Return to the divine presence and make others return to it.”
Flow of Divine Guidance (vol.1)
Variant: Perceive the divine presence and be freed.
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, p. 43
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 332.
Source: A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life (2003), p. 87
Source: Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology (1986), p. 9
“The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 277.
Apocalypse Descending (2002)
Context: I have to say (regretfully) that I've seen very little in my real life to indicate the presence of either the supernatural or the divine.
As for apocalypse, I was imprinted at an early age with the idea of The End of the World (this also courtesy of the Catholic Church). I can remember being terrified of thunderstorms — I'd think, Uh oh, THIS IS IT. I was born in 1957, and grew up in the metropolitan New York area with the Cold War as a backdrop. In kindergarten and first and second grade we had constant air raid drills, sirens going off and that whole "Duck 'n Cover" drill when you cower under your desk or else hide in the classroom cloak closet, waiting for the Atomic Bomb to drop. I had nightmares about that well into my twenties. For a while in the 1970s I lived near a fire station in D. C., and when the fire sirens would go off at night I'd wake up terrified — again — that THIS WAS IT.
Of course it never was, but it was good practice at being scared and thinking about scary stuff.