"Rumi says: 'I do not know who I am. I am in astounding lucid confusion. I am not a Christian, I am not a Jew, I am not a Zoroastrian, and I am not even a Muslim' . . . That radiant bewilderment is the highest state that you can be in on earth. It is very important to know what the enlightened mind is like. The enlightened mind doesn't have the answers. It isn't omniscient in any sense that the ego understands by 'omniscient.' It isn't a hyper-sophisticated computer. It is an infinitely responsive and loving instrument capable of infinite lucid expansion . . . Enlightenment isn't a fixed state. In fact, enlightenment is the knowledge that there is no such thing as a fixed state, that all places are placeless, that the possibilities of transformation in God are endless. That is why Rumi is saying, 'I am in astounding lucid confusion' . . . Rumi says that because the universe is reinvented in every second, . . . real divine life is a perpetual series of astonishments which goes on right until the 'last moment' and beyond."
Andrew Harvey
Photo: Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, WY, September 3, 2011
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