God said, "I loved to be known, so I created creation." This is reflected in the ones whom God loves. The qualities of loving, knowing, hearing, seeing, will, power, talking are all God's gifts to humanity. But God's greatest gift is love, the manifestation of His love of knowing Himself. Love is the primary sustenance for human beings. They cannot live without it, and mankind learned to love from God. Sheikh Badruddin 'Essential Sufism' Ed. Fadiman/Frager
A man wished to see the Prophet in a dream, but he could never achieve this vision, no matter how hard he tried. He asked a saint for advice. The saint said, "My son, on Friday evening you must eat a lot of salted fish, then perform your prayer and go to bed without drinking any water. Then you will see." The man followed this advice. He spent the whole night dreaming that he was drinking from streams, fountains, and springs. When morning came, he ran crying to the saint. "0 Master, I did not see the Prophet. I was so thirsty that all I dreamed about was drinking from fountains and springs. I am still on fire with thirst. The saint told him, "So, eating salted fish gave you such a thirst that you dreamed all night long of nothing but water. Now you must feel such a thirst for God's Prophet, and you will then behold his blessed beauty!" Sheikh Muzaffer 'Essential Sufism' Ed. Fadiman/Frager
THE jewel is lost in the mud, and all are seeking for it; Some look for it in the east, and some in the west; some in the water and some amongst stones. But the servant Kabīr has appraised it at its true value, and has wrapped it with care in the end of the mantle of his heart. ~Kabir Trans. Rabindranath Tagore
The darkness of night is coming along fast, and
the shadows of love close in the body and
the mind. Open the window to the west, and disappear into the
air inside you.
Near your breastbone there is an open flower.
Drink the honey that is all around that flower.
Waves are coming in:
there is so much magnificence near the ocean!
Listen: Sound of big seashells! Sound of bells!
Kabir says: Friend, listen, this is what I have to say:
The Guest I love is inside me!
Kabir
Trans Robert Bly
The Swan by Rainer Maria Rilke The laboring through what is still undone as though, legs bound, we hobbled along the way, is like the awkward walking of the swan. And dying-to let go no longer feel the solid ground we stand on every day- is like his anxious letting himself fall into the water, which receives him gently and which, as though with reverence and joy draws back past him in streams on either side; while, infinitely silent and aware in his full majesty and ever more indifferent he condescends to glide.
God's Wounds Through the great pain of stretching beyond all that pain has taught me, the soft well at the base has opened, and life touching me there has turned me into a flower that prays for rain. Now I understand: to blossom is to pray, to wilt and shed is to pray, to turn to mulch is to pray, to stretch in the dark is to pray, to break the surface after great months of ice is to pray, and to squeeze love up the stalky center toward the sky with only dreams of color is to pray, and finally to unfold again as if never before is to be the prayer. Mark Nepo Quoted in 'Essential Sufism' Fadiman/Frager
This world is nothing more than
Beauty's chance to show herself.
And what are we? -
Nothing more than Beauty's
chance to see Herself.
For if Beauty were not seeking Herself
we would not exist.
Every particle of creation sings its own
song of what is, and what is not.
The wise hear what is.
The mad bear what is not.
And only a cracked mirror will show
a difference.
All your knowledge leads you in
the wrong direction;
All your worship only puts you to
sleep.
Insipid is this world which only
believes in what is seen;
Here, taste the wine from this Cup
which cannot be seen...
On account of those who repeat His
Name.
The Earth has become a paradise,
an honored place in the order of
creation.
God's love is on this Earth,
And the heavens forever bend
over to greet Her.
~Ghalib
Translated by Jonathan Star
The only thing that is Eternal is Love. This Love *is* the Beloved *and* the Lover. You are not to make any effort in this relationship. When you are in front of your Beloved this Beloved will not ask you to make any effort. This Beloved will take care of you and whatever she does you will accept it. At that time you will not think what is going on because in Love there is no dialogue. In Love there is no dialogue, no question, no answer. Simply both are quiet. You are quiet and your Beloved is quiet and something great is about to happen Now. You have to wait. When you don't make any separation between the Beloved and the Lover you have found the secret: That you have never been separated from anything. This is all you have to do. Did you get this secret? From: 'This - Prose and Poetry of Dancing Emptiness' by Sri H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji)
Love makes us speak; love makes us moan; love makes us die; love brings us to life; love makes us drunk and bewildered; it sometimes makes one a king. Love and the lover have no rigid doctrine. Whichever direction the lover takes, he turns toward his beloved. Wherever he may be, he is with his beloved. Wherever he goes, he goes with his beloved. He cannot do anything, cannot survive for even one moment, without his beloved. He constantly recalls his beloved as his beloved remembers him. Lover and beloved, rememberer and remembered, are ever in each other's company, always together. ~Sheikh Muzaffer
This innocence waking up, realizing that everything is itself, even all the confusion and all the ignorance and everything... this is the dissolving of confusion, of ignorance, of karma. ~ Adyashanti
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