Sufism

The Religion of Love

Whoever is more awake has greater pain...

Whoever is more aware has a paler face...

The mark of divine love is love for all beings in every domain - spiritual, sensory, imaginable, and imaginary. Every domain has an eye that it receives from His name light, an eye with which it looks upon His name beautiful.

The precondition for love is the ability to see straight. This demands that we understand our own inadequacies and limitations. We must acknowledge that we do not know who we are. Knowing our own ignorance and inadequacy, we know that God alone is adequate. we are far from the real , far from wholeness, far from balance, equilibrium, wisdom, compassion, and every other desirable quality. Truly understanding and savoring this inadequacy yields a deep longing in the soul, which Rumi commonly calls "Pain".