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    <title>Gaia: The Sacred Pool - Masters, Mystics, Saints - Sufi Tradition - Entering The Path</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:06:19 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      To enter the Path demands a &lt;em&gt;metanoia, &lt;/em&gt;a change in perception.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My goal is to know through the eye and the vision...&lt;br /&gt;the desire of the vision tells me:&amp;nbsp; Rise up and move...&lt;br /&gt;In the same way that the child washes his tablet&lt;br /&gt;before inscribing his letters on it,&lt;br /&gt;God transforms the heart with blood and pitiful tears&lt;br /&gt;before engraving His mysteries on it.&amp;nbsp; (&lt;em&gt;Mathnawi I, 1821)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Come acknowledge that your imagination, your thinking,&lt;br /&gt;your sensorial perceptions and your understanding&lt;br /&gt;are like a reed stick on which the children ride.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Mathnawi I, 3445)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rumi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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