The eternal vision of classical art

Muhammad, the last of the prophets of Islam once said to Ali, “You are of me and I am of you.” In his book, The Way of the Sufi, Osho describes the effect of those words on Ali: “When he heard this, Ali became ecstatic and involuntarily started dancing. What else can you do when a man like Muhammad says to you, ‘You are of me and I am of you’? How do you receive this? Ali did well. […] It is not that the Sufi dances; godliness keeps dancing in him.”

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