"A man was crying 'Allah! Allah!' one night. When a cynic asked if he had ever gotten a response, the man couldn't answer. Confused, he fell into a depressed sleep. In a dream, Khidr, the guide of souls, appeared to him within some foliage. Khidr asked him, 'Why did you stop praising?' The man answered, 'Because I've never heard anything back!' Then Khidr enlightened him with these words: 'This longing you express IS the return message. The grief you cry out from draws you toward union.' "
Jelaluddin Rumi
"Staggering though it is, what I experience as my longing for God is God's longing for me."
Brother David Steindl-Rast,
Benedictine monk
Photo: Shrubby Evening-Primrose arising out of cracked, dry, hard badlands soil; Pawnee Buttes, Weld County, CO; June 10, 2013
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