...made it through the wilderness... somehow i made it through... madonna tells us... in her song, like a virgin... just for the very 1st time...
...what would it be like to do things for the very first time...?... if you knew what you wanted... how would you go about it if you were someone you admired... were inspired by... if you were You... true Self?...
...this is indeed a wilderness... thickets of noise... of babel... towers of babel frantically vandalizing the skyline... trying to get Close...
... the Truth is on the ground... those close to the Earth... the arif-ullah's - those who Know You...
...they are Close... getting Closer... connect with Your cosmos through what you have provided... through Quietness... without running on a treadmill... being busy... too busy... always without time... without enough time... and not knowing why...
...the treadmill... get off it... get off now...
... a million ideas... a million products... they all sound good... real good... but then get old... quick... onto the next... and you can brush your shoulders off like that makes you cool - saying on to the next - swagging in your disposable approach to life - priding yourself on being a commodifier, a single-use plastic bottle water drinker... on to the next...
...i see past your cool... cause it's me... cause i do that... have these surges of a million ideas... of what would be hot... but then i take Your prescriptions... bow the monkey mind... bow like ibrahim's only son before the guillotine... align...
...pass your cool... and your institutions... your towers of babel... want to no part in upholding your pillars of babel... even as i breathe your air, drink your water, live in your architectured sensibility...
...pass... i pass... but just barely... not knowing how to succeed at this... nor how to actualize what it is i Am... but keep listening for advice... keep asking... and keep hearing that i should do this and that... that i should market myself... that the only way for others to interface with me is for me to make myself known...
...i don't know anymore... i'm clear on one thing... gotta do it different... something's gotta give...
...if you know what you want... and even if you don't... you have to transform the you that doesn't know into one who does Know and follows through... walks the path whole-heartedly towards the Knowing... towards the what they want... and they why is clear...
...who knew what they wanted that you admire?... who knew and followed through...100 with it?...
...isabelle allended quit her job as a magazine writer, and wrote and published her first novel at the age of 40...
...gandhi quit being a lawyer to work for peace, to share peace with those in positions of power, to share this Way with others... to do this towards liberation of self...
...malcolm left prison with clarity of purpose...to be a preacher... to speak against the evils of colonialism, and eurocentrism, to organize the black community to be self-dependent, independent of the establishment, to do this through being disciplined in diet, prayer, self-defense, and economics... he shared his ideas with all... actively doing speaking engagements, and actively recruiting people into this movement, by establishing mosques throughout the country...
...che became a revolutionary after leaving medical school and going on a cross-continental trip of latin america... awakened by the turmoil he witnessed... he joined a group that was committed to seeing a new day... without thinking of a paycheck, or subsistence, him and the other cadre worked tirelessly and fearlessly towards liberation...
...who do you respect deeply? what about them? how did they actualize their Purpose? what is their story? legacy?
...what about you is keeping you from actualizing Your True Purpose? how do you shed it...?... how do you feed that which is already in ALLAH-ment?...
...how do you take on and metamorphosize into that which you haven't been but need to become to do what you haven't done, but need to do, to actualize Puropose...?...
...are you putting in the work...?... everything... all growth... requires work... Work... Work, as the prophet of this path of Surrender to the Source of Peace (islam)... reminds us... is worship...
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