The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting (Compass)

heart is like a candle longing to be lit. Torn from The Beloved it yearns to be whole again, but you have to bear the pain. You cannot learn about love. Love appears on the wings of grace.

candle as it diminishes explains, Gathering more and more is not the way. Burn, become light and heat and help. Melt.

The poet Rumi saw clearly the relationship between our wounds and our awakening. He counseled, “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.”

Just keep your longing burning, aflame; don’t lose heart. Your longing is the seed of your spirituality. Your longing is the beginning of the ultimate union with existence. Your lover is just an excuse.

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.