As one rises above passion, so one begins to know what is love.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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To an angelic soul, love means glorification
To a jinn soul, love means admiration
To a human soul, love means affection
To an animal soul, love means passion.
One need not fall in love, one must rise through love. Pour out floods of love, yet keeping your garment of detachment from being wet. … To what does the love of God lead? It leads to that peace and stillness which can be seen in the life of the tree which flowers and bears fruit for others and expects no return. … Those who are able to help others should not hide themselves but do their best to come out into the world. ‘Raise up your light high’, it is said. All that is in you should be brought out, and if the conditions hinder you, break through the conditions!
The one who says, ‘I love you but only so much; I love you and give you sixpence but I keep sixpence for myself; I love you but I stand at a distance and never come closer, we are separate beings’ — that love is with the self. As long as that exists, Love has not done its full work. Love accomplishes its work when it spreads its wings and veils one’s self from one’s own eyes. That is the time when Love is fulfilled.
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
What is passion? What is love? This is the same force, in the former instance operating in the sphere of plurality, in the latter case in the world of Unity or principle. When the Universal Love-Light is caught in the image of self, it is reflected in myriad pieces, each of which the self desires to grasp and keep as its own. Not recognizing the Supreme Unity and failing to find all its desire in any one of these fragments, the false self flits from false love to false love. This is because it only recognizes falsehood and not truth. Passion is therefore the shadow of Love; it is not to be condemned. It is the selfishness which must be eradicated.