' The Chamber of the Beloved '...

Suppose you can recite a thousand holy verses from memory... What are you going to do with your ego self,, the true mark of the heretic?... Every time your head touches the ground in prayers,, remember,, this was to teach you, to put down that load of ego,, which bars you from entering,, the chamber of the Beloved. ........................................................................................................................................ To your mind feed understanding,, to your heart,, tolerance and compassion.. The simpler your life,, the more meaningful... The less you desire of the world,,, the more room you will have in it,, to fill with the Beloved.............................. Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir (Abu Sa'id ibn Ab'il Khair ) (967 - 1049 ce) referring to himself as "nobody, son of nobody" he expressed the reality that his life had disappeared in the heart of God... This revered Persian Sufi mystic, from Khorasan preceded.he great poet Jalaluddin Rumi, by over two hundred years, on the same path of annihilation in Love....