Love: Falling and Flying Into Freedom

It's a great achievement for Islamic leaders and scholars as well as Newsweek and the Washington post to present this imperative opportunity for inter cultural and global philosophical dialogue. What's important is that by exchanging our ideas and comments regarding inter religious relations and world events that affect our views of each other as fellow human beings. Since the advent of humanity, We strove to make sense of the world we live in and the lives we've experienced. Worldwide curiosities to learn the true nature of life and our universe is an exceptionally rare virtue upon life on Earth. In other words, we're the only known species on the planet who've pursued to unravel these great mysteries and developed written philosophies based upon our understanding of the world around us.
One such philosophy that lasted throughout the ages of humanity is commonly known as religion and spirituality. Ever since our early belief in the Sky God and the God Mother from ancient Pagan times, we vigorously pursued to unravel the truth about our most profound questions. As any educated person would know that religion and their core beliefs or faith have evolved over time. Paganism, Monotheism and Polytheism have been influenced by humanity as these great philosophies have influenced our perceptions and decisions in life over the ages. Over time humanity has embraced diverse religious faiths and spiritual convictions that continue to influence our behavior in our times and most likely beyond.
What's vital for humanity's progress and even survival is to know the true nature of faith itself. To understand the true origins of faith. But most of all, is to accept the truth for whatever it may be. Each one of us will learn the absolute truth once we die. But until that time comes for anyone of us to depart this world, we really don't know the answer to God's existence nor do we have the absolute truth in regards to the true nature of God. Besides if we did possess the truth, there would've been only one religion on Earth with no diversification of any way, shape of form. There would only be one holy scripture written throughout human history.
Considering one's religious faith to be absolute, while considering others to be false would be ethnocentric at best. While collectively searching to unravel the mysteries on nature, life and the universe through sincere reasoning and serious research would be enlightening at its worst. Most importantly, we must accept the fact is that none of us have conclusive evidence to confirm our core beliefs and there's always an immanent change that our most cherished beliefs could be wrong. Our greatest challenge would be to tolerate the truth no matter what it may ultimately be. With such an open mind, we would be able to overcome any future discovery that would contradict our faith regarding the true nature of life, spirituality and divinity.
Humanity does have the ability to achieve such a social achievement. However, it's solely up to humanity and not any other entity or groups of entities to decide our destinies. Each one of us has a choice to make; either hopelessly engaging into meaningless inter cultural conflicts or combine our scientific and cultural gifts to thrive into an enlightened global civilization that could ultimately expand beyond our solar system. The choice is yours, and the time to make it is now!

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Rumi was a Sufi, and was probably describing (partially) how to have a mystical experience, how to have direct communication with God. The power of poetry is, however, that it can express two things at once. I'm sure Rumi would not have been disappointed to have his poem interpreted as concerning sexual, or any other kind, of love.

Historical sidebar: While most Sufis were aesthetes (they got their name, according to one story, from the coarse wool they wore), there was one branch of Sufiism which held that having physical pleasure was a way of loving God, and so they indulged all the physical pleasure copiously.

I’m not sure I get this guy...is he trying to be deliberately obtuse? From that poem I gathered "love" to be a learning experience, riddled with pain, sex IS love and that therefore its painful, and only through pain will we find freedom??? *Rolls eyes*, this guy is a real hoot.

An anthropologist might argue that "love" is a fiction, a romanticised apology for the Darwinian imperative to reproduce and the frailties of mankind that deny self-sufficiency to human progeny for more than a decade. In the dawn of mankind's history, children propbably fared better who were nurtured by a woman or several women, and provided for by a man or several men. Natural selection might have inspired some manner of genetic intuition regarding best partners for the strongest offspring, which natural affinity we have come to sentimentalize as "attraction."

On the other hand, maybe love is a spititual thing, beyond human accounting. Unable to prove any explanation, we are free to choose the one that satisfies us best.

Come,come again,whoever you are,come.Even if you broke your penitence hundred times,come.Ours is the portal of hope,come as you are.Jelaluddin Rumi 1207-1273.

Anybody who quote Rumi, for a poem about sex, have not understood any of his poems and probably will never understand his work, his character and his ideas.

When Rumi talks about love, it is divine love to all mighty. It takes years of meditation with a solid beliefs to reach to his level.

You might liked some of his work because it sounded so pure to you. The purity comes from the kind of love that all mighty have towards us, it is only pure love.

Rumi learned how to love back in the same manor at least he tried to.

If you want to understand him then you should free yourself from all desires, including the sex and do not expect anything from GOD all mighty or from this world.

In the way of love, talking fall always shorter than love, what counts are your actions.

Farther you sink into the dirt and get attached to this world, it become harder for you to reach true love or even understand Rumi who experienced true love.

Anybody who quote Rumi, for a poem about sex, have not understood any of his poems and probably will never understand his work, his character and his ideas.

When Rumi talks about love, it is divine love to all mighty. It takes years of meditation with a solid beliefs to reach to his level.

You might liked some of his work because it sounded so pure to you. The purity comes from the kind of love that all mighty have towards us, it is only pure love.

Rumi learned how to love back in the same manor at least he tried to.

If you want to understand him then you should free yourself from all desires, including the sex and do not expect anything from GOD all mighty or from this world.

In the way of love, talking fall always shorter than love, what counts are your actions.

Farther you sink into the dirt and get attached to this world, it become harder for you to reach true love or even understand Rumi who experienced true love.

sin or sacred ...

bounced about on the whims and wings of the beat of of an embrace: to tango the dance of power

In the end it's a question of power as such your answer is as good as any other:

exploited by some, isolated -- and perhaps feared -- by others.

It's up to each of us to fly free and embrace truth of the union of life, and in action , in performance we each do learn to fly.

Peace and acceptance in your travels
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Gaby

Love is a neurochemical response that desensitizes over time. It is very drug-like. It can morph into something more lasting when their is a common interest. There are somewhere between 6 and 7 billion of us on this earth, it evidently works well.

Love is an emotion, sex is a physical act. Although love compels us to have sex, it is not a prerequisite. Neither is it the other way around.

God Bless you thanks for joining us.

Sex is a language spoken by Love...it's native tongue if you will...that doesn't mean that Love only speaks in Sex. Nor does it mean that Sex is spoken by Love. Love is the total being and only knowing the total can you be certain that the professed heart is true. Some can peer into the heart alone...masters of Love are they.