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guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
Wed Mar 13, 2019, 04:36 PM Mar 2019

The Grace of Love: Leonard Cohen and the Sufis (Part 3)

From the article:

Note: This article is the third in a series of articles exploring the influence of the great Sufi poets on Leonard Cohen. The first two articles are:
“Making Love: Leonard Cohen and the Sufis (Part 1)”
“Guests of Love: Leonard Cohen and the Sufis (Part 2)”
Much of Cohen’s music, especially in his later years, was about grace. How we don’t deserve it, but it makes its way into our lives anyway. “There is a crack in everything” he sang, “That’s how the light gets in.”....

(Cohen wrote
In streams of light I clearly saw
The dust you seldom see,
Out of which the nameless makes
A name for one like me....


Rumi, too, identifies with dust when confronted with this “indescribable One”:
Dust settles upon my head and upon my metaphors,
for You are beyond anything we can either think or say


To read more:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingtradition/2019/03/grace-of-love/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Muslim&utm_content=49
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Voltaire2

(14,880 posts)
1. The other great influence on Cohens later career
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 04:13 PM
Mar 2019

was his manager, who basically robbed him blind, forcing him back into touring.

Kelley Lynch. The gods work in mysterious ways.

MineralMan

(148,008 posts)
2. What would you like us to take from this?
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 09:21 AM
Mar 2019

Since you do not comment on your excerpt, I have no idea. Would you care to explain?

MineralMan

(148,008 posts)
7. No. That is not it. That is not why you post such cryptic excerpts.
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 08:19 AM
Mar 2019

That's obvious. Your deliberate failure to include any commentary on what you post is telling. Some of us do go and read at your links. All too often, what we find there contradicts what you are obviously trying to say. I often wonder if you even read the articles from which you post excerpts. The evidence seems to say that you don't.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
8. There is plenty of evidence of how you treat theists.
Wed Mar 20, 2019, 07:18 PM
Mar 2019

So what conclusions shall we draw?

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
3. So are you sticking with your claim that religion is just tribalism?
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 09:31 AM
Mar 2019

Or do you reserve the right to imbue religion with special meaning and specific credit for things when you feel like it?

Naw, I know the answer. You will of course continue to try and have it both ways, and demonstrate why no one should take you seriously.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
6. It's your diversion. Your claim.
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 07:28 AM
Mar 2019

Glad you're backing away from it though, it was absurd and good for you to figure that out.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
9. I will guess that you only read the title, and that it was posted by me.
Wed Mar 20, 2019, 07:19 PM
Mar 2019

Classic diversion on your part.

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