"God's Voice says: 'I have given each being a separate and unique way of seeing and knowing and saying spiritual knowledge. What seems wrong to you is right for him. What is poison to one is honey to someone else . . . Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another. Hindus do Hindu things. The Dravidian Muslims in India do what they do. It's all praise, and it's all right . . . I don't hear the words they say. I look inside at the humility . . . Forget the phraseology. I want burning, burning! Be friends with your burning. Burn up your thinking and your forms of expression! . . . Lovers burn . . . The Love-Religion has no code or doctrine. Only GOD.'"
Jelaluddin Rumi, 13th century Turkey
Photo: A forest fire burns on the east side of Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, WY, September 3, 2011
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