Ruminating with Rumi
To love without attachment or expectation is to love without fear. Too often, you attach to what you want and call it love. You want this and not that. This becomes loved. To that you give little heed. You dole out love among your desires. Your expectations of fulfillment rise. Happiness and sorrow follow as expectations rise and fall. Try loving without something to love. Rumi says that a love with no object is a true love. Otherwise, love is a shadow of desire. Your love is parceled out to be withdrawn if expectations are not met. Give love to all fully and equally without conditions or fear of loss. To love without fear is joy. Joy has no opposite. It has no object. Love with no object is love without fear. It needs no other. To love in fear is to love in the shadows of the whole of the all. To love with expectations is to love on the fringes of joy. Such love comes with happiness and sorrow. Joy does not know happiness and sorrow. It is rare for someone to love without desire and expectation, yet such love is your true nature. You can follow love into the world and find happiness and sorrow, or you can love as your true nature. To love as your true nature, enter the room within where you find joy, wisdom, and peace of heart without expectations or conditions.
