Kirael: Mystics on Love - reading Gibran on Love (Nature of Love #3)
Channel: Kirael doAni
Date: 2016-06-17

Understand that your world is evolving. It is moving from a place of the mind to a place of the heart. It is moving up.

In the history of your species, there have been a very few who have touched the heart and understood it, experienced it. If you read what these people say, whether they are Muslim or Hebrew or Christian or Buddhist or Shinto or Native American mystics, thoe who have touched the heart all tell the same truths. It's crazy on the surface. These people come from different worlds, different times in history, totally different religions, religions that have over the course of history often fought each other over their ideas, yet with all these different backgrounds, when they touch the heart, they come up with very similar, simple truths, and they are always the same ones. This is the beauty of the heart, its truths are simple.

There are those like Rumi who struggled. He used the mind to reach for and touch the heart, but he never got it. Kahlil Gibran in the book the Prophet is another. He used the mind to understand love, and he touched it, but he never surrendered to it. The only one I know of hand is Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky. He's the only one who truly, completely surrendered to the energy of the heart. And in his words, if you listen with the heart, you can find a beauty you won't find anywhere else. But for most of you, who are struggling to understand the heart, you currently work at the level of the mind and you haven't gotten up to the heart, so sometimes it's easier to read Rumi, because he speaks more to the heart, or Kahlil Gibran's comment on love.

Gibran says: 
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden. 

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. 

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. 

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart. 

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love. 

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. 

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Angel, 2015-02-20