So rich, what a full and vibrant conversation. Omar makes learning about Islam so fascinating, creative, inspiring, curious. To really contemplate the presence of God, what that feels like and what it means, and find for ourselves what truth there lies beyond the everyday, the obvious and ordinary. Beyond belief or not belief, there is experience. Sensing, hearing, breathing- touching what we experience here and what we can experience when we embrace practices that bring us deeper, within. <br><br>The way he talks about voluntary surrender to authority (God's authority) is remarkable, particularly for me as someone led by self-determination. Rather than abdicating ALL authority as dysfunctional and abusive, we can heal beyond our childhood trauma and integrate that authority fully into the rest of our being. We can be fully liberated when the time and place calls us to CHOOSE surrender and allow ourselves the vulnerability to be awestruck by something far greater than our human lives. Thank you Lex for your invitation and your listening.,(reply>), This one prostration which you deem too exacting,<br>liberates you from a thousand prostrations<br>- Mohammad Iqbal (Urdu poet - 1936)