/lit/ - Literature

The year was 610 AD. Mohammed was in the cave on Mount Hira. He received his first spiritual experience and feared that he had become either mad or, as he said, a poet. He went to his wife trembling with fear saying, "Woe is me. Poet or possessed?" He had even thought of casting himself down from the high rocks to kill himself. It was such a shock, it was such a great voltage of love. For three days he was trembling constantly as if in a deep, dangerous fever.

The fear was that he thought that he had either become a poet or he had gone mad. Out of this experience of Mohammed's starts the river of Sufism. It has always remained both poetic and possessed. He was both. He had become a poet and he had become possessed. He had gone mad and he had become a mystic.

why is reading OSHO so damn comfy? fuck.