That Hour my Mother gave me the Leading Strings of Love.

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The Power of Life that loosen'd my Band when I was born, That Hour my Mother gave me the Leading Strings of Love. I asked Love's Self, fond nursing: How shall I Love escape? She said: There is no Outlet from encircling Rings of Love.

Source Rûmî, Divan (Hastie), Gazel 43 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Rûmî, from birth the human being is guided by Love, and when he asks how to escape it, Love answers that there is no way out of its rings: all that lives is held by it. Today, notice three moments when you were carried by love received, from a parent, a friend or God, and give one back to someone.

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