Sorrow looted this heart,and Your Love threw it to the winds.This is how the secret which saints and seers were deniedwas whispered to me.

My Beloved, don't be heartless with me.Your Presence is my only cure.How can I be left with neither a heart, nor my Beloved?Either return my heart, or do not deny meYour Presence.

Mansoor, that whale of the Oceans of Love,had separated his soul from the entanglements of this life.It was not him who claimedAna-al-Haq (I am the truth),It was the Friend in whom he had lost his self.It was the Beloved.



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If You order me to spend my life at the gates of monasteries,or have me running to Mecca,Your wish is my command.Glorious will be the day when Yourelease me from my self.

Though burning has become an old habit for this heart,I dare not think of Your company.What would a moth to the fire that burns worlds?from Nobody, Son of Nobody: Poems of Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir,

On Unity's Way:no infidelityno faith.Take one stepaway from yourself and --behold! -- the Path!You, soul of the world,must choose the roadof Divine Submissionthen sit with anyone you like-- even a black snake --but not your self!from The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry,

Love cameflowed like bloodbeneath skin, through veinsemptied me of my selffilled mewith the Belovedtill every limbevery organ was seizedand occupiedtill onlymy name remains.the rest is It.from The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry,

In my heart Thou dwellest--else with blood I'll drench it;In mine eye Thou glowest--else with tears I'll quench it.Only to be one with Thee my soul desireth--Else from out my body, by hook or crook, I'll wrench it!Abu-Said Abil-Kheir

Freedom From Dependency
The real reason why we sometimes experience a lack of real, deep lasting happiness in our lives is dependency. We are taught to make our happiness dependent on some event, condition, person, object etc. This is why we keep delaying our happiness until things are just right in our life. We think we will be happy in the future and then wonder why we are not happy now. But life is never just right, and the future never comes – there is only now! And that's why, in order to be happy we must make our happiness a decision and not a dependency.
Reflection: What is your happiness mostly dependent on right now? Imagine your self without the above and that you are quite content without the above, how do you feel? Action: What can you do in your mind tomorrow to change your state of being from dependency to freedom from dependency?