Zikr Allah September 27, 2014, 7:30 pm 1000 Urlin Ave. Suite 100

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You are the sky and I am the earth
astonished at what you grow inside my heart.
Dry-lipped and thirsty, only the grace of your rain
can turn the earth into a rose garden.
By you it is pregnant and only you know its burden.
It twists, it turns and sighs until
it gives birth to divine longing.
The Beloved takes care of his lovers
and feeds them generously.
Sometimes he ties them with the cord of reason
and sometimes he sets them free to dance.
Look at the meadow bursting with flowers
unable to contain its joy.
Look at the power of the Divine One
turning senseless dust into a sublime painting!
All we see is a veil of this never setting Sun,
this ancient Sun that will one day silently reveal
everything that has been planted.
       -- Translation by Azima Melita Kolin
          and Maryam Mafi
          Rumi: Hidden Music
          HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001

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Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, born 9/30/1207

As we celebrate the Union of Mevlana on 12/17,

let us also celebrate his arrival in the world, 

so much for us to be grateful for ...

Please join the Columbus Sufi Circle

An evening of zikr, poetry, sweet conversation and sweet treats.

1000 Urlin Avenue, suite 100

Grandview Heights OH 43212

contact Hilal at 614-446-3337 or email hilal1001@sbcglobal.net

"Enemy of the Reich" on PBS channel 34 Tuesday September 9 at 8 pm

"Enemy of the Reich" is about Noorinissa Inayat Khan in the Second World War. It will air at 8pm on September 9 on WOSUTV, channel 34 in Columbus. See Wikpedia for information about her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan

Yeshua through the Eyes of a Sufi - Group begins Monday, Sept. 8

 Aramaic Yeshua and Sufis

(An intersection of Native Middle Eastern language, cosmology, and spiritual practice from a Universalized Sufi perspective)

Group begins this Monday.  The group is open to anyone, so please share the word with anyone who might hold interest. 

Monday, Sep 8

7:00-8:20 pm

Melbourne Village Community Room 

95 Highland Avenue

Worthington, OH 43085

Parking is in the business parking lot at corner of High Street and Highland Avenue.  This lot is the western edge of Melbourne Village apartments.  Walk east on the sidewalk on the street (or locate the sidewalk within the apartment village), watching for the 90/95 address which is the Community Room. Please do not park in the large lot in front of the community room as this is for residents.

Dates for fall:  Sept 8 and 22, Oct 6 and 20 and Nov. 17.

Experiential focus primarily.  Some input and discussion.  Mostly spiritual practices with chant, meditation, body prayer.

Help requested for outreach events with Dances of Universal Peace

Greetings, Friends,

This is another plea for help if anyone is available and willing to support the outreach of the Dances of Universal Peace.  There are two back to back days where groups have asked our presence. 

First is the annual EARTHDANCE day at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Dances are to be first on the docket at 4:00 p.m.

This means that there might not be many people right at 4, though they might start to trickle in.  So it means that supporting dancers are all the more needed to make a circle.

We will only dance about a half hour, but then people can stay as long as you wish for more dancing from different kinds of dance leaders and dance circles.  (The Jewish folk dance group last time was a treat.  They will be back.  And they gave us a good workout!  The Laughing Yoga half hour is returning as well.)

The second event is the following evening.  It is with a regional Enneagram retreat group that is meeting all weekend at Bergamo Center in Dayton. We’ll arrange a car pool to go and inshallah it will be as inspiring as the June event 8 of us enjoyed in Cincinnati with the Enneagram group of Central Ohio Valley (Some of them will be present this time at Bergamo.)  This is the closing evening of their retreat and is at 7:00 p.m.  We would probably leave around 5 p.m.

PLEASE CONSIDER THESE OUTREACH EVENTS AND IF YOU ARE ABLE TO GO TO EITHER ONE OR BOTH, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!  (Send email to: ereed@shalemcenter.org) Please share this email with anyone else you know who enjoys the Dances and might enjoy being a part of outreach.

Much love to all,

Munira

Rev. (Munira) Elizabeth A. Reed, Ph.D.

Shalem Center/Abwoon Resource Center

881 High Street, Suite 206

Columbus, OH 43085

Phone: 614-441-9773 (Shalem)

                614-429-4009 (ARC)

Fax: 209-755-5766

www.shalemcenter.org

www.abwoon.com