A Few Words...
The beginning of a new year often has us making plans to end the year with a soulmate by our side. I know I have been referred to many dating sites, told to lower my standards, and reminded that "there's still time." Honestly, I gather my love from friends, family, and the Most High. I do wonder if I will meet my life companion, then I came across a beautiful poem by Hazrat Inayat Khan. I'll share it with those of you looking for love...
The Dance of the Soul
“I have loved in life and I have been loved
I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar,
and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow
My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it
My heart has been rent and joined again
My heart has been broken and again made whole
My heart has been wounded and healed again
A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet
I went through hell and saw there love's raging fire,
and I entered heaven illumined with the light of love
I wept in love and made all weep with me
I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men
And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks burst forth as volcanoes.
The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear
With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried aloud the name of my beloved,
I shook the throne of God in heaven
I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged of love,
"Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret"
She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth, and spoke softly in my ear,
"My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover,
and thyself art the beloved whom thou hast adored”
Photo by Hossein Attar