MoroccoPens
On Sunday,
February 28th, 2016, Morocco Pens, in collaboration with the Path Ahead
workshops, hosted a special presentation by Iskandar Soekardi entitled “The
Subtle Depths of Silence" at the ALC Community Center in Battoir,
Agadir. The ALC Agadir instructor
offered a thorough analysis of Billy Collins’ poem “Silence” and Rumi’s “Where
Everything is Music”, alongside personal anecdotes about homeschooling,
education, radio segues, and libraries.
Afterwards, the second half was a perusal of the 10th century text on
Spiritual Etiquette, the Epistle of Qushayri. Moroccan mint tea was served to
the engaged audience, who, at times, added excellent insights themselves. The up-and-coming photographer, Kamar Erraji,
was in attendance, capturing precious moments.
One of the
attendees had this to comment:
"Silence is a precious gift. In that space between our words it’s
where we find ourselves. When the mind is quiet, when there are no thoughts and
no words to be said, we can hear our own heart talking to us. We can hear our
own soul and our own intuition"
Another
said, "I learned a great deal."
Hanane El
Harbili, a university student at Ibn Zohr,
commented, "The sentence that I still feel in my heart is that (the
definition of) "adab" is putting things in their proper places. I like this sentence so much, so wonderful.
The presentation was wonderful. I hope
to attend events like this again."
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