Showing posts with label Listening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Listening. Show all posts

Sunday, May 10, 2015

MRA and ISIS


Moral Rearmament may offer an ideological alternative to Yussef al Ayeri's brand of takfiri Salafism that is the theological basis for ISIS' approach. However I am not sure that the raw kind of Moral Rearmament needed still exists. It is not the love in MRA that matters. That we all have I would trust. It is not the honesty. Again, MRA makes a thing of that but then so do many. It is the selflessness, which is a fearless approach. And the purity, which enshrines a rejection of materialism (and indeed purity as advocated by Gandhi would demand the further step of non-violence). And of course there is MRA's distinct form of Sufism. Because in essence MRA was and is a movement for selfless puritan sufism.

Saturday, April 4, 2015

You Don't Know What You Want

And would you listen?

Could you listen?

Should you listen?

The world is what it is.

You did not make it.

You cannot take it.

You can just play your part,

Lest we all break it.