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One of you know of the poetha face, one of my favorites, he's a sufi mystic.

And one story is that a man came to him and talked to him about a profoundly enlightening

experience where he had seen a vision of God and he had merged with light and love.

And he basically was asking, was it real?

This is the response.

Do you have any goats and not a, do you have a wife?

Not a children, not a, again, parents, friends?

The realness of that experience shows itself through the kindness you express with each

being in your life.

This is the manifestation of a spiritual path in the human realm, it's kindness.

And I'm aware as I think about it that really that the spiritual path cannot be separated

from our relationships with the world.

And if we think of the most famous spiritual leaders from the last century, if we think

of Ghandeer and Nelson Mandela or Desmond Tutu or Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, each

one of them were social activists.

They dedicated social activism, responding to suffering.

And they were particularly social activists responding to the suffering of the most oppressed

and vulnerable people in the world.

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