Short Story: The Murshid of Murshids. Personality, wisdom, and love.
@innertalks (21957)
Australia
September 1, 2021 9:47pm CST
The grand Murshid of Medina, Mirza Mahzood, was giving a talk on personality types to the good citizens of his district.
Let's eavesdrop in on what he said:
"Personality is who we are at our core. It can control all other parts of us."
"Things like love, devotion, discipline, morality, righteousness, spirituality, tolerance for others, goodwill, peace, respect for others, communication ability, compassion, understanding, humility, courage, hope, awareness, positivity, work ethic, dedication, benevolence, selflessness, truth, conscientiousness, kindness, loyalty, sincerity, generosity, and any other personality trait, that you could think of, make you who you are."
"On the other hand, meanness, greed, selfishness, hatred, negativity, laziness, self-centeredness, complaintiveness, being controlling, lacking empathy, impatience, inflexibility, sarcasm, closed-mindedness, bitterness, resentment, etc. etc, also paint our personality, and we are coloured by these traits, as well."
"That's some long lists,"
someone called out from up in a back row.
"Well, my wisdom comes from none of that. Wisdom is love being understood with conscious awareness of God's truths. Wisdom becomes a new state of our very being, our higher self, or soul; it is not just a trait of our personality, only"
The master smiled, and then he smiled once more, and then, for a third time, he smiled.
He then said,
"Does that smile come from my wisdom, or from my personality, or from somewhere else within me, perhaps from my heart, or my soul?"
The heckler replied,
"That looks a pretty smug smile of smugness, in your knowing that you are right, and me wrong, and yet there was something else in those three smiles too."
"There was love."
The master answered:
"Yes, there was love."
" When we love, love then shines through our personality, but it meets others with the shades of our personality affecting it, if we are not careful, but when we allow love through, despite any underlying personality, our personality then takes on the shine of love too, and so then we drop off any suspect character flaws in our personalities too."
"Love trumps personality, every time, or at least, it always should do so."
Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com
Picture: The Murshid at prayer, earlier in the morning.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
2 Sep 21
this one really hit home.
we've just survived four years of the cult of personality in the US. it is a very dangerous thing.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
3 Sep 21
@innertalks it is a good definition of a cult of personality. living through the dishonestly made me long for a veracity engine!!!!!
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@innertalks (21957)
• Australia
4 Sep 21
@DocAndersen Yes, it is hard to discern what is the truth from the lies, especially when the lies are spouted off as being the truth.
@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
4 Sep 21
@innertalks if you repeat something often enough it is perceived as the truth. that is the cult of personality at its worst.
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@innertalks (21957)
• Australia
3 Sep 21
Yes, Medina is a great ancient city. That's why I picked it here, for my story.
@Shiva49 (26701)
• Singapore
2 Sep 21
Love should override our personality traits as then we see all as one and one as all.
The quirks in personalities can be deceptive but love is pure and unhindered in our expression of it.
It is beyond description by words only and even actions. It transcends human behavior.
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@innertalks (21957)
• Australia
2 Sep 21
Yes, I think that too.
We are born with certain personality traits too, I suspect, some might even be hereditary, or part of our karma.
A negative outlook, a certain meanness of heart, an overly criticalness of everything, a sort of meanness of stinginess, even being a home person, wanting to stay to ourselves, all of the time too.
Some are born naturally caring, and kind too, and stay that way, despite an uncaring environment to grow up in.
We need to embrace love, as it is God's iron, that will iron out all the wrinkles, and quirks of our personality and character too.
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@innertalks (21957)
• Australia
4 Sep 21
@Shiva49 Sometimes, that reason, if there is a reason, leaves us scratching our head for God's real reason behind it all though.
What is his reason now for throwing us this virus, into our midst?
Tough love, or impatience, at our greedy self-centred ways?
It's hard to see the love behind a despot, like Hitler, was too, or if that had to happen for a reason, as well.
@Shiva49 (26701)
• Singapore
3 Sep 21
@innertalks God gives us breaks in our lives and connecting them with love inside us, ready on tap, will make our journey seamless
The mood swings happen but love should be allowed to shine over them
After all, nothing is really lost and happens for a reason.
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