Dances of Universal
Peace
Next Dance: Sunday, June 5
at Gainesville Retreat Center
Dancing Peacock Paradise event of April 30th 2016.
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Lyrics
If it helps you to see the words, here are some of them. Half have only 2 or 3 words, so it’s easy even though they are in foreign languages:
Hayy Manukti Ahayyti – Aramaic
Radhe Govinda Bolo – Sanskrit
Ya Majid, La illaha il Allah – Arabic
Shalom Lai Lai Lai – Hebrew
Mitakuye Oyasin – Lakota Sioux
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Sufi Study Circle
Wed. May 18, 7-8:30 PM
Preceded by Vegetarian Potluck Dinner at 6:00
"The Beautiful Names"
at Cyd & Patrick's 'new' house
3145 NW 46th Avenue, just off NW 34th Street. Parking is on the street.
New house phone number 240-6476
Gainesville, FL 32605
RSVP & specify "Sufi Meeting"
for directions & info
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Samuel Lewis
Originator of Dances of Universal Peace ~ before the beard
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Dianne Jones
New Staff member at Dancing Peacock Paradise; She will help prepare the buildings for the events. She lives in nearby Sparr.
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Be nice to camels
They are really neat.
Be nice to camels
Cause they have big feet.
Walking together In a caravan
Living together Standing in the sand.
Camels come in sizes, One hump or 2
Riding through the desert,
They will carry you
On long legs they travel,
Underneath the sun
Swaying together Moving Toward the 1
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Not Christian or Jew or Muslim,
not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen.
Not any religion or cultural system.
I am not from the east or the west,
not out of the ocean or up from
the ground, not natural or ethereal,
not composed of elements at all.
I do not exist, am not an entity in this
world or the next, did not descend
from Adam & Eve or any origin story.
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The dance room at Gainesville Retreat Center
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Dance & Poltuck Manners
For the benefit of the other dancers
* Take small amounts at the potluck so everyone can try every dish.
* Be friendly to everyone who is there.
* Maintain silence while dances are being taught.
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Upcoming Summer Tentative Dates in Gainesville & Ft. McCoy
- Sat, June 25 at UCG ~ 7:00
- Sat, July 23 – Peacock Paradise potluck dinner 6:00 & zikr in the gazebo
- Sat, Aug 13 at UCG ~ 7:00
If you have a venue & people who want to dance, DiAnahita is available to lead this summer.
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~ April Remarks ~
Dearest DiAnahita, Your mailings are magnificent ~ full of beauty, light & inspiration. I adore receiving them, & send every possible blessing for your ministry there. Toward the One,
Maimoona Rose, Molly Martin
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Yogashakti Ashram in Palm Bay invited Patrick to speak about "How Kataragama Called Me" to a mixed audience of South Indian families & American devotees of Ma Yoga Shakti. It is rather like Dancing Peacock Paradise, a small ashram home to three generations of American devotees of Ma Yoga Shakti.
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A wealth you cannot imagine
Flows through you.
Do not consider what strangers say
Be secluded in your secret heart
that bowl of silence. Rumi
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My place is the placeless,
a trace of the traceless.
Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved,
have seen the two worlds as one
& that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner,
only that breath breathing
human being.
sufi mystic - jelaluddin rumi
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