what you want to happen…
Longing is the core of mystery.
Longing itself brings the cure.
The only rule is, Suffer the pain.
Your desire must be disciplined,
and what you want to happen
in time, sacrificed.
Rumi – The Essential Rumi – Coleman Barks
Meister Eckhart said, “God is the sigh in the soul,”
and this sigh, this sorrow, is a most precious poison….(source)
O Lord, listen in brief words
to the real description
of my pleasure and my pain:
Union with your nature
is my pleasure;
Separation from you
is the cause of my pain.
Shivastotravali by Utpaladeva
