Attending to Attar, Day 20
You are immersed in the ways of the world, but its trappings do not serve you. Strike a match to its pleasures and pains, happinesses and sorrows. Their harvest comes from planting desires and expectations in fields of fear. Burn the fields. There is love in fear that needs freeing. You are the bearer of the torch. Set the fields afire, for love without fear is joy.
Joy binds the whole of the all. It unites. It dissipates pain and sorrow. To walk in joy is to overcome the ways of the world. Mystics say to relieve yourself of ritual and dogma. Instead, turn within. Let the self disappear. Enter the room within where your mystery is revealed. Step forward. Leave your faith in worldly ways behind. The journey is hard but eased by joy’s comfort. Joy is your true nature. It cannot abandon you. You are joy. Do not forget joy as you step forward to burn the fields of fear.
