Saturday, October 6, 2007

A Sip Of Wine ( Islamic Mysticism ) ...



- Love draws us to love ... Pulls us into this sweet abyss ... Melts away attachments ... Drowns us in ecstacy ... Who would not give away everything for another taste of this intoxicating substance ??? The Sufi's say that one sip of this wine and you are lost ... You would sell everything for just another sip ...


- I felt the butterfly wings of love at the edge of my heart ... I knew I was given more than I thought could ever be given ... And later the love came again ... Richer, deeper, more complete, more intoxicating ... All one can think is, why me ??? ... What have I done to deserve this ??? ... And the heart is so greatful ...


- In this love affair all of our patterns of seduction, the games we play to keep our lover, are useless ... We become so vulnerable ... We are loves prey ...

- In human relationships we have been taught to look after ourselves, to draw boundaries and not be victimized ... We know that we shouldn't be taken advantage of ... That we shouldn't be violated ... This is very important ... Learning to keep our human integrity and sense of self ... Not to sell ourself for what appears as love or the promise of security ... But the ways of mystical love are very different ... In the relationship with our souls Beloved, we have to give ourself without restrictions ... And we are violated, abused, and loved beyond compare ... We are taken by force, abducted and transformed ... And we give ourself willingly to this self-destruction through love ...


- Love takes us by force beyond every limit ... Beyond what we think is possible ... We are tortured and made whole by love ... Time and time again we lose and rediscover ourself ... Only to fall deeper and deeper into loves endless abyss ...


- Loves ocean is real and endless ... A place not for the fainthearted ... Not for those who like security or safety ... The mystic is seduced and dragged into this love ... Seduced by its softness, dragged by its power ... This love abuses our sense of self, destroys our patterns of control, violates our deepest beliefs, and takes us back to God ... In this love there is neither form nor limit ... Only a completeness beyond even our dreaming ... A sweetness beyond imagining ... And a terror that belongs to the absolute ... Love takes us into the infinite emptiness of His presence ... Into the vastness that is hidden within our own heart ...


- This is why the sufi's call the lane of love a one-way street ... Once this primal passion has been awakened the lover cannot return to the rational world ... To the world of the ego ... You can only give yourself ... And give yourself ... And give yourself ...



- Love is the only thing that every soul brings to earth with it ...


- The outer beauty of a person must merge with the inner beauty and become one ... This is the source of true beauty - (Sufi Wisdom)


- Love is a net where hearts are caught like fish - (Sufi Wisdom)


- A heart enlightened by love is more precious than all of the diamonds and gold in the world - (Sufi Message)


- Greatfulness in the character is like fragrance in the flower - (Sufi Wisdom)


- A worldly loss often turns into a spiritual gain ...


- We can never pray enough, or give enough, or share enough, or care about the world enough ... And we could never love enough to repay God for His gifts to us ...


- Do you not love for Allah to forgive you ??? - (Qur'an)


- You will never attain piety ... Until you spend from what you love - (Qur'an)
(This is how you rid yourself from wealth and desire)


- They hear no word but the words of God ... They never cease from the remembrance of God ... Everywhere they behold God's Beauty ... Their aim is God alone ... And their desire is God's good pleasure ...


- Whoever desires to purify his heart ... Then let him prefer Allah to his desires ...


- When I touch the ground in prayer ... I have no other purpse but You ...



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