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Interfaith Services
to that Mystery indifferent to differences, to It I pray, O Ramanatha.
ADRIENNE RICH
Georgia Gómez-Ibáñez
My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed.
I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
SOLO
HUMPBACK WHALE NEAR BERMUDA
READINGS FROM SACRED TEXTS
MUSLIM
Nabil Maalej
And it is he who spread out the earth, and set thereon Mountains standing firm, and (flowing) rivers: and fruit of every kind he made in pairs, two and two: He draweth the night as a veil over the day. Behold verily in these things there are signs for those who consider!. And in the earth are tracts (diverse though) neighbouring, and gardens of vines and fields sown with corn, and palm trees growing out of single roots or otherwise: watered with the same water, yet some of them we make more excellent than others to eat. Behold, verily in these things there are signs for those who understand.
Assuredly the creation of the heavens And the earth is greater Than the creation of mankind; Yet most of mankind understands not.
- translations from the Qu'ran, XIII: 3-4; XL:57
ВАНАТ
Paul & Ellie Jacobi
Reflect upon the inner realities of the universe, the secret wisdoms involved, the enigmas, the interrelationships, the rules that govern all. For every part of the universe is connected with every other part by ties that are very powerful and admit of no imbalance, nor any slackening whatever ..... Even as the human body in this world, which is outwardly composed of different limbs and organs, is in reality a closely integrated, coherent entity, similarly the structure of the physical world is like unto a single being whose limbs and members are inseparably linked together. Become clear that the greatest relationship that bindeth the world of being together lieth in the range of created things themselves, and that cooperation, mutual aid, and reciprocity are essential characteristics in the unified body of the world of being, inasmuch as all created things are closely related together and each is influenced by the other or deriveth benefit therefrom, either directly or indirectly.
- 'Abdu'l Baha
-143
