The path of love is described by Saint Gregory of Nyssa [d. ca. 395] as "a bridge of hair across a chasm of fire," and what happens when you come to the middle of this bridge? The fire burns the bridge and you fall into the depths, into the flames. This is why the Sufis call the lane of love a one-way street. Once this primal passion has been awakened the lover cannot return to the rational world, to the world of the ego. You can only give yourself, and give yourself, and give yourself.
*Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD. Love Is a Fire: The Sufi's Mystical Journey Home.
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Only This
I am with You, My Love
like a bird in space like a fish in water like the root in earth
Such sweet Communion
we share we are
Yet, sometimes, there is Something else
where the bird? where space? where the fish? where water? where the root? where earth?
Only this! ... Only this Bliss ... Bliss!
Such sweet Ecstasy ~ Union
we share we are
No You No Me No We ... One or Two
Bliss! Bliss! only This somehow happening now, now, now ...
I have been burned up, thankfully, inside Your Love inside You
*Use of photography is allowed accompanied by credit given to Brian K. Wilcox and title and place of photographs.
*Brian's book, An Ache for Union: Poems on Oneness with God through Love, can be ordered through major online booksellers or the publisher AuthorHouse.
