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Loving in Aloneness

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LISTENING TO THE SCRIPTURES

Kiss me tenderly!
Your love is better than wine,
and you smell so sweet.
All the young women adore you;
the very mention of your name
is like spreading perfume.

*Song of Songs 1.2-3 (CEV)

RECEIVING SACRED TEACHING

Brothers, my peace is in my aloneness.
My Beloved is alone with me there, always.
I have found nothing in all the worlds
That could match His love,
This love that harrows the sands of my desert.
If I come to die of desire
And my Beloved is still not satisfied,
I would live in eternal despair.

To abandon all that He has fashioned
And hold in the palm of my hand
Certain proof that He loves me-
That is the name and the goal of my search.

*Andrew Harvey, Eryk Hanut. Perfume in the Desert. Poem by Rabia (717-801). Muslim mystic and first female Sufi.

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