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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm speaking about compassion from an Islamic point of view,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.00,0:00:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and perhaps my faith is not very well thought of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.00,0:00:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as being one that is grounded in compassion.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.00,0:00:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth of the matter is otherwise.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.00,0:00:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our holy book, the Koran, consists of 114 chapters,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.00,0:00:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and each chapter begins with what we call the basmala,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.00,0:00:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the saying of "In the name of God, the all compassionate, the all merciful,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.00,0:00:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or, as Sir Richard Burton --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.00,0:00:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not the Richard Burton who was married to Elizabeth Taylor,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.00,0:00:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the Sir Richard Burton who lived a century before that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.00,0:00:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who was a worldwide traveler
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.00,0:00:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and translator of many works of literature --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.00,0:00:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,translates it. "In the name of God, the compassionating, the compassionate."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.00,0:00:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in a saying of the Koran, which to Muslims is God speaking to humanity,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.00,0:01:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God says to his prophet Muhammad --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.00,0:01:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whom we believe to be the last of a series of prophets,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.00,0:01:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beginning with Adam, including Noah, including Moses, including Abraham,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.00,0:01:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including Jesus Christ, and ending with Muhammad --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.00,0:01:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that, "We have not sent you, O Muhammad,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.00,0:01:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except as a 'rahmah,' except as a source of compassion to humanity."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.00,0:01:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For us human beings, and certainly for us as Muslims,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.00,0:01:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose mission, and whose purpose in following the path of the prophet
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.00,0:01:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to make ourselves as much like the prophet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.00,0:01:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the prophet, in one of his sayings, said,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.00,0:01:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Adorn yourselves with the attributes of God."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.00,0:01:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because God Himself said that the primary attribute of his is compassion --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.00,0:01:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in fact, the Koran says that "God decreed upon himself compassion,"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.00,0:01:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or, "reigned himself in by compassion" --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.00,0:02:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,therefore, our objective and our mission must be to be sources of compassion,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.00,0:02:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,activators of compassion, actors of compassion
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.00,0:02:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and speakers of compassion and doers of compassion.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.00,0:02:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is all well and good,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.00,0:02:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but where do we go wrong,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.00,0:02:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what is the source of the lack of compassion in the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.00,0:02:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the answer to this, we turn to our spiritual path.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.00,0:02:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In every religious tradition, there is the outer path and the inner path,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.00,0:02:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the exoteric path and the esoteric path.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.00,0:02:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The esoteric path of Islam is more popularly known as Sufism, or "tasawwuf" in Arabic.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.00,0:02:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these doctors or these masters,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.00,0:02:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these spiritual masters of the Sufi tradition,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.00,0:03:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,refer to teachings and examples of our prophet
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.00,0:03:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that teach us where the source of our problems lies.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.00,0:03:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In one of the battles that the prophet waged,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.00,0:03:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he told his followers, "We are returning from the lesser war
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.00,0:03:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the greater war, to the greater battle."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.00,0:03:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they said, "Messenger of God, we are battle-weary.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.00,0:03:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can we go to a greater battle?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.00,0:03:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "That is the battle of the self, the battle of the ego."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.00,0:03:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, "I."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.00,0:03:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The famous Sufi master Rumi, who is very well known to most of you,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.00,0:03:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has a story in which he talks of a man who goes to the house of a friend,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.00,0:03:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he knocks on the door,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.00,0:04:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a voice answers, "Who's there?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.00,0:04:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It's me," or, more grammatically correctly, "It is I,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.00,0:04:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we might say in English.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.00,0:04:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The voice says, "Go away."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.00,0:04:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After many years of training, of disciplining, of search and struggle,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.00,0:04:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he comes back.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.00,0:04:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With much greater humility, he knocks again on the door.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.00,0:04:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The voice asks, "Who is there?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.00,0:04:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "It is you, O heartbreaker."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.00,0:04:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The door swings open, and the voice says,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.00,0:04:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Come in, for there is no room in this house for two I's,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.00,0:04:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- two capital I's, not these eyes -- "for two egos."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.00,0:04:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Rumi's stories are metaphors for the spiritual path.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.00,0:05:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the presence of God, there is no room for more than one "I,"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.00,0:05:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is the "I" of divinity.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.00,0:05:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a teaching -- called a "hadith qudsi" in our tradition --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.00,0:05:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God says that, "My servant," or "My creature, my human creature,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.00,0:05:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not approach me by anything that is dearer to me
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.00,0:05:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than what I have asked them to do."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.00,0:05:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those of you who are employers know exactly what I mean.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.00,0:05:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want your employees to do what you ask them to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.00,0:05:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if they've done that, then they can do extra.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.00,0:05:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But don't ignore what you've asked them to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.00,0:05:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And," God says, "my servant continues to get nearer to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.00,0:05:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by doing more of what I've asked them to do" --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.00,0:05:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extra credit, we might call it --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.00,0:05:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"until I love him or love her.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.00,0:05:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I love my servant," God says,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.00,0:06:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I become the eyes by which he or she sees,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.00,0:06:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ears by which he or she listens,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.00,0:06:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hand by which he or she grasps,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.00,0:06:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the foot by which he or she walks,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.00,0:06:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the heart by which he or she understands."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.00,0:06:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is this merging of our self with divinity
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.00,0:06:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is the lesson and purpose of our spiritual path and all of our faith traditions.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.00,0:06:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslims regard Jesus as the master of Sufism,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.00,0:06:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the greatest prophet and messenger who came to emphasize the spiritual path.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.00,0:06:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he says, "I am the spirit, and I am the way,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.00,0:06:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when the prophet Muhammad said, "Whoever has seen me has seen God,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.00,0:07:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is because they became so much an instrument of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.00,0:07:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they became part of God's team --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.00,0:07:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that God's will was manifest through them,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.00,0:07:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were not acting from their own selves and their own egos.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.00,0:07:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Compassion on earth is given, it is in us.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.00,0:07:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All we have to do is to get our egos out of the way,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.00,0:07:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get our egotism out of the way.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.00,0:07:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sure, probably all of you here, or certainly the very vast majority of you,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.00,0:07:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have had what you might call a spiritual experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.00,0:07:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a moment in your lives when, for a few seconds, a minute perhaps,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.00,0:07:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the boundaries of your ego dissolved.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.00,0:07:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at that minute, you felt at one with the universe --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.00,0:08:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one with that jug of water, one with every human being,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.00,0:08:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one with the Creator --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.00,0:08:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you felt you were in the presence of power, of awe,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.00,0:08:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the deepest love, the deepest sense of compassion and mercy
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.00,0:08:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you have ever experienced in your lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.00,0:08:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a moment which is a gift of God to us --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.00,0:08:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a gift when, for a moment, he lifts that boundary
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.00,0:08:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which makes us insist on "I, I, I, me, me, me,"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.00,0:08:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and instead, like the person in Rumi's story,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.00,0:08:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we say, "Oh, this is all you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.00,0:08:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is all you. And this is all us.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.00,0:08:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And us, and I, and us are all part of you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.00,0:09:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,O, Creator! O, the Objective! The source of our being
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.00,0:09:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the end of our journey,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.00,0:09:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are also the breaker of our hearts.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.00,0:09:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are the one whom we should all be towards, for whose purpose we live,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.00,0:09:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for whose purpose we shall die,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.00,0:09:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for whose purpose we shall be resurrected again
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.00,0:09:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to account to God to what extent we have been compassionate beings."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.00,0:09:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our message today, and our purpose today,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.00,0:09:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those of you who are here today,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.00,0:09:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the purpose of this charter of compassion, is to remind.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.00,0:09:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the Koran always urges us to remember, to remind each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.00,0:09:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the knowledge of truth is within every human being.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.00,0:10:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know it all.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.00,0:10:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have access to it all.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.00,0:10:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jung may have called it "the subconscious."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.00,0:10:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Through our subconscious, in your dreams --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.00,0:10:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Koran calls our state of sleep "the lesser death,"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.00,0:10:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the temporary death" --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.00,0:10:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our state of sleep we have dreams, we have visions,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.00,0:10:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we travel even outside of our bodies, for many of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.00,0:10:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we see wonderful things.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.00,0:10:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We travel beyond the limitations of space as we know it,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.00,0:10:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and beyond the limitations of time as we know it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.00,0:10:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But all this is for us to glorify the name of the creator
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.00,0:11:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose primary name is the compassionating, the compassionate.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.00,0:11:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God, Bokh, whatever name you want to call him with, Allah, Ram, Om,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.00,0:11:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever the name might be through which you name
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.00,0:11:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or access the presence of divinity,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.00,0:11:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is the locus of absolute being,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.00,0:11:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,absolute love and mercy and compassion,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.00,0:11:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and absolute knowledge and wisdom,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.00,0:11:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what Hindus call "satchidananda."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.00,0:11:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The language differs,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.00,0:11:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the objective is the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.00,0:11:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rumi has another story
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.00,0:11:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about three men, a Turk, an Arab and --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.00,0:11:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I forget the third person, but for my sake, it could be a Malay.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.00,0:11:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is asking for angur -- one is, say, an Englishman --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.00,0:11:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one is asking for eneb, and one is asking for grapes.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.00,0:11:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they have a fight and an argument because
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.00,0:12:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- "I want grapes." "I want eneb. "I want angur." --
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.00,0:12:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not knowing that the word that they're using
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.00,0:12:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,refers to the same reality in different languages.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.00,0:12:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's only one absolute reality by definition,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.00,0:12:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one absolute being by definition,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.00,0:12:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because absolute is, by definition, single,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.00,0:12:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and absolute and singular.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.00,0:12:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's this absolute concentration of being,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.00,0:12:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the absolute concentration of consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.00,0:12:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,awareness, an absolute locus of compassion and love
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.00,0:12:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that defines the primary attributes of divinity.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.00,0:12:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these should also be
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.00,0:12:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the primary attributes of what it means to be human.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.00,0:12:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For what defines humanity, perhaps biologically,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.00,0:13:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is our physiology,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.00,0:13:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but God defines humanity by our spirituality, by our nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.00,0:13:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Koran says, He speaks to the angels and says,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.00,0:13:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When I have finished the formation of Adam from clay,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.00,0:13:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and breathed into him of my spirit,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.00,0:13:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then, fall in prostration to him."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.00,0:13:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The angels prostrate, not before the human body,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.00,0:13:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but before the human soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.00,0:13:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because the soul, the human soul,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.00,0:13:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,embodies a piece of the divine breath,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.00,0:13:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a piece of the divine soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.00,0:13:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is also expressed in biblical vocabulary
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.00,0:14:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we are taught that we were created in the divine image.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.00,0:14:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the imagery of God?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.00,0:14:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The imagery of God is absolute being,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.00,0:14:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,absolute awareness and knowledge and wisdom
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.00,0:14:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and absolute compassion and love.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.00,0:14:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And therefore, for us to be human --
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.00,0:14:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the greatest sense of what it means to be human,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.00,0:14:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the most joyful sense of what it means to be human --
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.00,0:14:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means that we too have to be proper stewards
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.00,0:14:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the breath of divinity within us,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.00,0:14:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and seek to perfect within ourselves the attribute of being,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.00,0:14:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being alive, of beingness;
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.00,0:14:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the attribute of wisdom, of consciousness, of awareness;
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.00,0:14:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the attribute of being compassionate and loving beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.00,0:14:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what I understand from my faith tradition,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.00,0:15:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is what I understand from my studies of other faith traditions,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.00,0:15:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is the common platform on which we must all stand,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.00,0:15:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when we stand on this platform as such,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.00,0:15:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am convinced that we can make a wonderful world.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.00,0:15:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I believe, personally, that we're on the verge
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.00,0:15:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that, with the presence and help of people like you here,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.00,0:15:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can bring about the prophecy of Isaiah.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.00,0:15:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For he foretold of a period
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.00,0:15:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when people shall transform their swords into plowshares
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.00,0:15:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and will not learn war or make war anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.00,0:15:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have reached a stage in human history that we have no option:
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.00,0:16:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we must, we must lower our egos,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.00,0:16:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,control our egos -- whether it is individual ego, personal ego,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.00,0:16:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,family ego, national ego --
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.00,0:16:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and let all be for the glorification of the one.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.00,0:16:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you, and God bless you.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.00,0:16:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)