Attending to Attar, Day 63
Love is natural. It is your nature to love. What keeps you from love is fear. You are stuck trying to find love somewhere, anywhere, on the earthly road to oblivion. You look here and there but love escapes you and you feel lost. Desire attaches you to this and that. Expectations run high. A sip now and then of the sweet nectar seldom satisfies. Your hopes dry on the vine. Stop! Your fearful search does not have to continue. Your heart seeks unity. As you struggle to find love, be patient and kind. Do not let go of kindness. Kindness is love given by grace to all. Kindness brings you back to love without fear. You will know the way. It is written in your heart. Love’s door is always open. It does not close but in your mind. The fragrance of love draws you over the threshold. Follow its scent into the depths of darkness where the candle of love burns. Sit silently in the glow and know. To seek outside yourself is to lose your way. The love you find in the world is tainted with fear. The love that burns within is joy. Joy is love without fear. Joy is your true nature. You are joy. There is no other.
