Taken from Hazrat Inayat Khan's writing on The Mystical Heart.
So why do I post this here? Often we expect a particular level of reciprocity whatever the circumstance, and often as we begin to share a sentimental and tender side of ourselves we might hope to receive recognition on an intimate level. The lessons nature and social interaction provide are both painful and rewarding. It isn't selfish to crave a romantic affair, it is selfish to force one when it is simply not there, so I share here whenever you might wonder- is my Love unrequited? Don't stop digging for that purity, don't stop searching for home, move through the false realities until you've reached the destination. You will reach the destination; and in the process, you can rise above the pull of duality.. You can choose to surrender and let god, you can choose to keep digging.
Some say, 'I have loved dearly once, but I was disappointed.' It is as if a man were to say, 'I dug in the earth, but when the mud came, I was disappointed.' It is true that mud came; but with patience, he will reach the water one day. Only patience can endure. Only endurance produces greatness.
Imitation gold can be as beautiful as real gold, the imitation diamond as bright as a real diamond. The difference is that the one fails in the test of endurance, and the other stands up to it. Yet man should not be compared with objects. Man has something divine in him, and he can prove this by his endurance on the path of love.
Whom then should one love, and how should one love? Whatever a person loves, whether duty, human beings, art, friends, an ideal, or his fellow creatures, he has assuredly opened the door through which he must pass in order to reach that love which is God. The beginning of love is an excuse. It leads to that ideal of love which is God, alone. Some say that they can love God, but not human beings. But this is like saying to God, 'I love Thee, but not Thine image.' Can one hate the human creatures in which God's image is to be found and yet claim to love God? If one is not tolerant, not willing to sacrifice, can one then claim the love of the Lord?
The first lesson is the widening of the heart and the awakening of the inner feeling of the heart. The sign of saintliness is not in the power of words, not in the high position, either spiritual or intellectual, not in magnetism; the saintly spirit only expresses itself in the love of all creatures; it is the continuous springing of love from that divine fountain in the heart of man. When once that fountain is turned on, it purifies the heart, it makes the heart transparent to reveal both the outer and the inner world. The heart becomes the vehicle for the soul to see all that is within and without; and then a man not only communicates with another person, but also with God.
https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/X/X_6.htmI have found the Divine Romance comes back to me in unexpected ways, and I have been able to connect with souls on a deeper level because of it. Let's devote our energies to God and ask to be guided by Love all ways.
