This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
as pieces of cloud
dissolve in sunlight
Rumi,
The Soul of Rumi, Trans. Barks, p. 32
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how do we learn to love
how do we learn to make this
compassion
affection
adoration
empathy
yes love
that grows in our hearts
‘till they must burst
real?
Ah!
by letting ourselves be loved by God
so fiercely
that we soften
our ego melting away
fading
until it is no longer in the way
and all that remains
is that person in front of us
that one
our beloved
our enemy
a friend
a stranger
whom we have been called
by faith
to love
(love of God, without practical acts of love toward those
around us is empty and false – James 2:17, my paraphrase)
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