In being compassionate, we distance ourselves from the evil that may be present in others without separating ourselves from the good in them ... Love is God’s knowable light – light that has been ‘darkened’ (or softened) by God as an act of mercy, so that it can be known. Divine light would otherwise be too bright to be known ... It is in or through the birth of our consciousness itself that love is born (light is darkened) and enlightenment becomes possible. Ultimately, we ourselves are (God’s) love. We, ourselves, are proof of God’s existence ... Scientific learning reveals light that already exists, but is not known and which needs to be discovered – it is revelation by unveiling. Art creates light that did not previously exist in the form in which it has now been created. Art is revelation by veiling, as much as it is by unveiling. In veiling the known, art unveils the unknown ... Every spiritual illness is the result of either too much, or too little, generosity towards someone or something; and its cure lies in increasing or decreasing our generosity until it is correctly balanced. The cause of the illness is our not knowing how much light to shine on a positive attribute, or by how much to dim the light shining on a positive attribute, so that a new positive attribute or knowing becomes the outcome ... A spiritual world becomes possible for us to recognize only because a physical world exists; and a physical world exists only because a spiritual world exists ... The outer is created so that the inner may become known ... To love someone means to see the beauty of the Divine in someone.

NEW BOOK: R399

Shabbir Banoobhai’s brilliant exposition on leadership is an invaluable approach to reperceiving the nature of leadership in the coming century. All aspiring and established leaders should read this book and share its lessons widely to transform themselves and the communities they serve.

- Dr Koffi M. Kouakou, MD, Stratnum Futures, Formerly Senior Lecturer at the Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand

March 29, 2017

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In these reflections, meditations, prayers and poems written over a month of fasting and shared daily with his friends via email, Shabbir Banoobhai describes the journey of love as a ‘journey of the heart, in the heart, from the heart, to the heart’ and his experience as:

one of spirit engaging with spirit – sometimes trying to remove the veil of selfhood that covers our hearts, or that of ignorance covering our faces.

- From lightmail

September 10, 2014