This is Love: to fly heavenward, to rend, every instant, a hundred veils.

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This is Love: to fly heavenward, To rend, every instant, a hundred veils. The first moment, to renounce Life: The last step, to feel without feet. To regard this world as invisible, Not to see what appears to one's self. "O heart," I said, "may it bless thee To have entered the circle of lovers, To look beyond the range of the eye, To penetrate the windings of the bosom! Whence did this breath come to thee, O my soul, Whence this throbbing, O my heart?"

Source Rûmî, Divan (Davis), “This is Love” · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Rumi, the Persian Sufi poet, to love is to fly heavenward and to keep rending the veils; “to renounce Life”, here, means renouncing the small self that wants to bring everything back to itself, so as to enter “the circle of lovers” of God and feel a new breath in one’s heart. Today, at a moment when you want to be right, let go and let love come first.

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