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Talks, interviews and lectures by physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté — on trauma, addiction, stress and disease, ADHD, attachment, and healing.
…Well, I am so sure that love is a new spirituality. Have you ever heard of a guy called Jesus or Buddha? or Buddha or Rumi or Hafiz, all they write about and talk about is love, you know? And when they say don't bring spirituality in the room, what…
…something, but to notice when it's not there. and to see what's in the way of it. There's actually a great quote by the poet Rumi, the great Persian poet Rumi, who said that, I'm going to quote him right now, he said, your task is not to seek for…
…it's not there. and to see what's in the way of it. There's actually a great quote by the poet Rumi, the great Persian poet Rumi, who said that, I'm going to quote him right now, he said, your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and…
…the human being as the microcosm and the universe as the macrocosm, and the connection between the macro and the micro. The great Rumi, one of the great poets, I'm sure you know him, he says, he speaks about the human as insan, human being, And the…
…complains of the separation it has endured. So this metaphor is a disconnection from the human being with his creator, Allah So for Rumi, this reed cries because it's been cut off from the reed bed, isn't it? And for us, the human soul cries because it…
…when you speak, Dr. Gabor, about disconnection from the self and the root of suffering, We can hear the same cry that Rumi is pointing towards in this metaphor, you know, that cry of being with something that you don't fully know, but you're remembering…
…some reflections from an Islamic psychological point of view. Feel free to add your questions in the Q and a. So, essentially Rumi says, if I'm not mistaken, that the wound is where the light enters you and you were reflecting upon the etymological…
…only through pure experience. Otherwise, it would be irrelevant. But that's the whole point. It is pure experience that a great poet like Rumi can write about or Hafiz can write about. But... I cannot claim to have had that pure experience. So if I did,…