What of distant and near, while it is drunk with love?

Excerpt

Think not my feet touched the earth, For the lover verily travels with the heart. What knows the heart of road and stages? What of distant and near, while it is drunk with love? Distance and nearness are attributes of bodies, The journeys of spirits are after another sort. You journeyed from the embryo state to rationality Without footsteps or stages or change of place, The journey of the soul involves not time and place.

Source Masnavi, Book III, Story XII, §4 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Rumi, the lover travels with the heart, and the heart drunk with love knows neither roads, nor stages, nor distances: just as you journeyed from the embryo to reason without taking a step, the soul travels beyond time and place. Today, think of a loved one who is far away, and join them with your heart for a few moments by sending them a kindly thought.

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