Mystical View
“There’s a wonderful passage in the Masnavi of Rumi in which he speaks of the heart as a womb. Through that womb a new world is born, and so each of us in our incarnate existence is consciously or unconsciously in the process of birthing a new universe There is a constant dialogue between eternity and this moment and between infinity and this place. If it were not so, if the physical plane merely ran on its own power, existence would be like a machine. That is the physics of the Enlightenment: the universe is a great cosmic clockwork. In that vision the world is a self-perpetuating series of accidents that are ultimately meaningless. Matter is assumed to be essentially inanimate, which is to say soulless. But the perception of the mystic is that anima exists: there is a living current, an evolutionary force, a providential but open ended destiny working itself out in this planetary sphere. And that is because this sphere is not isolated, but is in a dialogical rapport with eternity.”
A Reality Without A Name: An interview with Pir Zia Inayat Khan by Robert Doto in the Winter 2007 Parabola.
A Reality Without A Name: An interview with Pir Zia Inayat Khan by Robert Doto in the Winter 2007 Parabola.