These images represent the following sentence taken from the home page of www.ahalmaas.com –
The Diamond Approach is a path of wisdom, an approach to the investigation of Reality and a method of working on oneself that leads to human maturity and liberation.
…and interpreted in images by phrasr. See the show here
What do you think? I like it. I’m going to open The Soul’s Compass to a random page and do one from it – next post.
It’s been quite a while since i was memed, but today Resonant Engima tagged me.
Here is the meme guide:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
Since I am still reading – Your Soul’s Compass – I grabbed it.
5th Sentence:
It’s a statement of faith.
Next 3 sentences:
When you say, ‘What’s the most important prayer in Judaism?’ it’s Ana Adonai hoshiya na -‘Please God help us.’ It’s like Kyrie Eleison – ‘Lord have mercy.’ Reb Zalman’s explanation struck a very personal chord for me (Joan Borysenko).
Compare that to this (the other book close at hand – ProBlogger):
5th sentence:
One of my favorite monetization strategies is that anything that alows you to charge a subscription rather than a one-time payment.
Next 3 sentences:
Make a sale but get paid over and over. It’s the gym membership model. Some blogs do this with private forums, others with online training courses.
In reading A. Decker’s profile, we see the list of favorite movies is: King Kong(both), O Brother Where Art Thou?, Brick, Crouching Tiger…(Ang Lee-Chinese-not dubbed English).
May we suggest – Vitus, Baghdad Cafe, and Being There?
Who to Tag????
And now back to working on my Tuesday presentation for Experience Unlimited – 8 Simple Tools to Market YOU.
My friend Gordon, co-author of Your Soul’s Compass, was attending a workshop with Hameed Ali (A.H. Almaas) recently. According to Gordon, people were using the the words “fantasy” and “imagination” interchangeably.
I commented that in fact these were opposite concepts. “Fantasy” is a mental construct–a substitute for reality. Imagination, on the other hand, is an intensification of reality. It is depth perception, the percieving of the divine arising from the absolute that is your lover and also you in this holy instant, seeing the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower as William Blake did, perceiving the fertile realm of concrete potentiality that lies beneath the surface reality in which we find ourselves embedded. Hameed agreed with me that in fact imagination is indeed a different faculty from the one used for fantasizing.
Your Soul’s Compass deals with how we can intentionally engage spiritual imagination–what Ibn Arabi called “the creativity of the heart”–to open us to a more harmonious and intimate dance with ultimate reality as the realm of our own and the world’s unfolding possibility.
How do you see fantasy vs. imagination?
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