The path to relaxation from desire for Love, is not fulfillment of the desire, but to live the desire until you see, you know fully, it can never be fulfilled by anything or anyone in this world. The Love you taste, only whets the appetite for a more pure, fuller expression of Love. The final pragmatism of this desire - indeed, all desire -, then, is its failure. Then, we can relax in peace, with heart both 'here' and 'there,' without trying to know what living in these two 'places' is all about. There is a life beyond the longing, but only for those who have lived the longing to its end point - a dead end. Then, like a bud, somethings opens up, and you see the desire has relaxed into a quietude of Love, a silent bliss of Joy.
There is a singular delight no one but a true Lover knows, for only Lovers have nurtured the seeds of longing for the Beloved with enough tears to see joy arise from the soil tended by their patient pining.
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