Lesson From Talk Radio

 

“I, you, he, she, we
In the garden of mystic lovers,
these are not true distinctions.”
― Rumi

 

 

 

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I have taken to listening to talk show radio in the afternoons while I'm driving. These are predominately Right Wing programs that are speaking to their audience. They're not looking to convert. Of course I'm not looking to be converted. I'm decidedly not Right Wing. I guess I would be categorized as Left Wing - yet I would prefer to think of myself as without a political label. Or any label for that matter. But I am labeled and I label others. It's how we define our world. But what of we didn't? What if we viewed the world as Rumi did? Is it possible? I noticed as I was listening to a radio pundit and his guest today that they kept referring to Liberals as they, and them, as in  -' the problem with them' and "they just don't understand". And of course I thought - no, it's them that doesn't really get it". And so goes the problem. It's our distinctions that get us into trouble - Right and Left. We are neither. We are Americans. Strip that away - and we are Earthlings. Go farther and we are joined spirit of immaterial light that even the worlds most powerful microscope could not discern a glimpse of separation. We have entered the garden of mystic lovers.

 

Peace,

Eric