He has awaited me for countless ages,

                                for love of me He has lost His heart:

                                Yet I did not know the bliss that was so near to me,

                                for my love was not yet awake.

                                                                                                   Kabir

I concerned myself to remember God, to know Him, to love Him and to seek Him. When I had come to the end I saw that He had remembered me before I had remembered Him, that His knowledge of me had preceded my knowledge of Him, that His love towards me had existed before my love to Him and He had sought me before I sought Him.                       Bistami

We are all in the eternal embrace of the Divine, and our sole purpose in life is to open our hearts to this Divine Presence, to know it and to love it as the essence and ground of our own lives and  the life of every creature and every aspect of creation……..to recognize its longing to be known in our own longing for relationship with what seems so far from us yet is closer to us than our own breathing.

Whether you follow the idea of a personal God or the impersonal Truth, Ramakrishna said, you will certainly realize the One Reality, provided that you experience passionate longing for it.

Each individual is unique and follows a unique path. With the longing to discover it , the way unfolds in the rhythm of the life of each seperate being. The Alchemists knew their work of transmuting the lead of ignorance and seperation into the gold of union would best be done gently, patiently and with great delicacy. As the windows of the heart are opened, the light pours in, revealing what was previously shrouded in darkness…..insight, wisdom, and compassion grow with the experience of communion with the Divine.

                                                       taken from ‘ The Mystic Vision ‘                                                       Andrew Harvey and Anne Baring

This blog gathers together prayers, poetry, words and thoughts from many different cultures, religions, paths and lovers of the eternal Beloved……. whispers from the heart, that transmit the vision of those men and women who discovered within themselves the quintessential treasure of the Divine. I hope they inspire you to follow them into the heart of all life and enjoy the amazing process of the alchemy of Love.