And God said to the Soul

And God said to the Soul:

I desired you before the world began

I desire you before now

As you desire me.

And where the desires of two come together

There love is perfected.

How the Soul speaks to god

Lord, you are my lover,

My longing,

My flowing stream,

My sun,

And I am your reflection.

How God answers the soul

It is my nature that makes me love you often

For I am love itself.

It is my nature that makes me love you intensely,

For I yearn to be loved from the heart.

It is my eternity that makes me love you long,

For I have no end.

~ Mechthild of Magdeberg

From Love Poems to God

I WRITE OF THAT JOURNEY     

By Mira

I remember how my mother would hold me.

I would look up at her sometimes and see her weep.

I understand now what was happening.

Love so strong a force

it broke the

cage,

and she disappeared from everything

for a blessed

moment.

All actions have evolved

From the taste of flight;

the hope of freedom

moves our cells

and limbs.

Unable to live on the earth, Mira ventured out alone in the sky –

I write of that journey

of becoming as

free as

God.

Don’t forget love;

it will bring all the madness you need

to unfurl yourself across

the universe.

The Only One by Meher Baba

God is Love.  And Love must love.  And to love there must be a Beloved. But since God is Existence infinite and eternal there is no one for Him to love but Himself.  And in order to love Himself He must imagine Himself as the Beloved whom He as the Lover imagines He loves.

Beloved and Lover implies separation.  And separation creates longing:  and longing causes search.  And the wider and the more intense the search the greater the separation and the more terrible the longing.

When longing is most intense separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was that Love might experience itself as Lover and Beloved, is fulfilled; and union follows.  And when union is attained, the Lover knows that he himself was all along the Beloved whom he loved and desired union with; and that all the impossible situations that he overcame were obstacles which he himself had placed in the path to himself.

To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are!  Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

The Guardians of Beauty

By Hafiz

"We are the guardians of His Beauty 
We are the protectors
Of the Sun.

There is only one reason
We have followed God into this world:
To encourage laughter, freedom, dance
And love.

Let a noble cry inside of you speak to me
Saying, "Hafiz,
Don't just sit there on the moon tonight
Doing nothing -

Help unfurl my heart into the Friend's Mind,
Help, Old Man, to heal my wounded wings!"
We are the companions of His Beauty
We are the guardians
Of Truth.

Every man, plant and creature in Existence,
Every woman, child, vein and note
Is a servant of our Beloved -

A harbinger of joy,
The harbinger of
Light."  

Be Free My Love

Be free my love, 

for you are the essence 

of the song

that has been

played in the heart of every 

man and woman seeking God.

Love Flows from God

By Mechthild of Magdeburg


Love flows from God to man without effort
As a bird glides through the air
Without moving its wings --
Thus they go whithersoever they will
United in body and soul
Yet in their form separate --
As the Godhead strikes the note
Humanity sings,
The Holy Spirit is the harpist
And all the strings must sound
Which are strung in love.

How To Love God

by Meher Baba

To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings.

 If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.

If, instead of seeing faults in others, we look within ourselves, we are loving God.

If, instead of robbing others to help ourselves, we rob ourselves to help others,
we are loving God.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others,
we are loving God.

If, instead of worrying over our own misfortunes, 

we think ourselves more fortunate than many many others, we are loving God.

If we endure our lot with patience and contentment, accepting it as His Will,
we are loving God.

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God 

is not to hurt or harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must live for God and die for God, 

knowing that the goal of life is to Love God, and find Him as our own self.

The Love of God

"The love of God, unutterable and perfect,
 flows into a pure soul the way that light      
rushes into a transparent object. 
The more love that it finds, the more 
it gives itself; so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror-like, each soul reflects the other." Dante Alighieri