Kindness, Love & Compassion đź’—
The two aspects of holding—contact and space, attunement and letting be—correspond to the two core qualities of love, warmth and openness, that are native to our being. Warmth is our natural impulse to reach outside ourselves, touch, and make contact, to welcome, embrace, and take delight in. Openness is our capacity to let be, to allow, to let in
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Ripples of a Friendship
You will never feel loved until you love yourself .
—ARNAUD DESJARDINS
Welwood, John • Perfect Love
That said, Sufis consider all orthodoxy, all traditional teachings, the law, theology, and the Five Pillars inadequate for attaining true knowledge of God. Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by
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In the words of the Indian sage Nisargadatta Maharaj, “Life is love and love is life.”2