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To: long-gone who wrote (9811)	11/1/2002 7:22:09 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (2) of 13018

Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough A Flask of wine, a book of verse - and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness - And wilderess is paradise now. - Omar Khayyam, Persian Poet/Astronomer/Mathematician Metaphor and Meaning Bread : The life-force, or energy in the body, stimulated thru meditation. Wine : The wine of spiritual intoxication. The Bough : The spinal tree of life. Beneath the bough : When consciousness is gathered inside the spinal tree. A book of verse : Inspiration emanating from the book of the heart, once its restless emotions have been soothed, transformed into a calm feeling. Thou : The cosmic beloved. Singing : Entertaining the soul's intuition with perception of the complete truth. Wilderness : Inner stillness. In the begining, the meditator, his mind no longer awhirl with restless thoughts, experiences a certain loneliness. Omar Khaiyyam compares this initial state of spiritual emptiness to the desolation of a desert. Wilderness of Paradise : In this wilderness of inner stillness soon appear radiant, multicolored wildflowers of absolute joy. - J Donald Walters <The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Explained>

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