The Grace of Love: Leonard Cohen and the Sufis (Part 3)

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From the article:

Note: This article is the third in a series of articles exploring the influence of the great Sufi poets on Leonard Cohen. The first two articles are:
“Making Love: Leonard Cohen and the Sufis (Part 1)”
“Guests of Love: Leonard Cohen and the Sufis (Part 2)”
Much of Cohen’s music, especially in his later years, was about grace. How we don’t deserve it, but it makes its way into our lives anyway. “There is a crack in everything” he sang, “That’s how the light gets in.”....

(Cohen wrote
In streams of light I clearly saw
The dust you seldom see,
Out of which the nameless makes
A name for one like me....


Rumi, too, identifies with dust when confronted with this “indescribable One”:
Dust settles upon my head and upon my metaphors,
for You are beyond anything we can either think or say

To read more:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingtradition/2019/03/grace-of-love/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Muslim&utm_content=49