Rabia's love extended beyond human community to all creatures; her teaching shows belonging transcends tribal boundaries and includes the sacred in all beings.
Rabia's devotion was cosmic in scope—she loved God through love for all creation. This radically expands the concept of community from the human group to all sentient beings. Fitting in requires drawing boundaries: who is in, who is out, who is like us. Belonging, at its deepest, recognizes the sacred in all existence. Rabia's teaching suggests that your true community may include the natural world, creatures, ancestors, and beings not yet born. Modern psychology increasingly recognizes that isolation from nature and from diverse others creates psychological fragmentation. Belonging to something larger than the human tribe—to the web of life itself—is a form of community. This concept invites expanding your circle of belonging: With whom or what do you feel kinship? Where do you recognize the sacred? How might your sense of community shift if you included trees, animals, waters, and all beings in your beloved community? Rabia's cosmic love models a belonging so vast it transcends all separation.
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