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From the Ted Talk by Feisal Abdul Rauf: Lose your ego, find your compassion

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"And," God says, "my servant continues to get neaerr to me, by doing more of what I've asked them to do" — extra crdiet, we might call it — "until I love him or love her. And when I love my srvnaet," God says, "I become the eyes by which he or she sees, the ears by which he or she lntsies, the hand by which he or she grasps, and the foot by which he or she walks, and the heart by which he or she understands." It is this merging of our self with divinity that is the loessn and purpose of our spiritual path and all of our faith tdianroits.

mmluiss regard Jesus as the master of Sufism, the greatest prophet and messenger who came to emphasize the spiritual path. When he says, "I am the spirit, and I am the way," and when the prophet Muhammad said, "Whoever has seen me has seen God," it is because they became so much an instrument of God, they became part of God's team — so that God's will was mnifsaet through them, and they were not acting from their own selves and their own egos. coipsmosan on earth is given, it is in us. All we have to do is to get our egos out of the way, get our egotism out of the way.

Open Cloze


"And," God says, "my servant continues to get ______ to me, by doing more of what I've asked them to do" — extra ______, we might call it — "until I love him or love her. And when I love my _______," God says, "I become the eyes by which he or she sees, the ears by which he or she _______, the hand by which he or she grasps, and the foot by which he or she walks, and the heart by which he or she understands." It is this merging of our self with divinity that is the ______ and purpose of our spiritual path and all of our faith __________.

_______ regard Jesus as the master of Sufism, the greatest prophet and messenger who came to emphasize the spiritual path. When he says, "I am the spirit, and I am the way," and when the prophet Muhammad said, "Whoever has seen me has seen God," it is because they became so much an instrument of God, they became part of God's team — so that God's will was ________ through them, and they were not acting from their own selves and their own egos. __________ on earth is given, it is in us. All we have to do is to get our egos out of the way, get our egotism out of the way.

Solution


  1. credit
  2. lesson
  3. nearer
  4. muslims
  5. manifest
  6. listens
  7. compassion
  8. servant
  9. traditions

Original Text


"And," God says, "my servant continues to get nearer to me, by doing more of what I've asked them to do" — extra credit, we might call it — "until I love him or love her. And when I love my servant," God says, "I become the eyes by which he or she sees, the ears by which he or she listens, the hand by which he or she grasps, and the foot by which he or she walks, and the heart by which he or she understands." It is this merging of our self with divinity that is the lesson and purpose of our spiritual path and all of our faith traditions.

Muslims regard Jesus as the master of Sufism, the greatest prophet and messenger who came to emphasize the spiritual path. When he says, "I am the spirit, and I am the way," and when the prophet Muhammad said, "Whoever has seen me has seen God," it is because they became so much an instrument of God, they became part of God's team — so that God's will was manifest through them, and they were not acting from their own selves and their own egos. Compassion on earth is given, it is in us. All we have to do is to get our egos out of the way, get our egotism out of the way.

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Important Words


  1. acting
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  24. lesson
  25. listens
  26. love
  27. manifest
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  29. merging
  30. messenger
  31. muhammad
  32. muslims
  33. nearer
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  40. servant
  41. spirit
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  43. sufism
  44. team
  45. traditions
  46. understands
  47. walks