“We are all in the force field of love, but in the early stages of spiritual growth, its power is weak. We waver and can easily be thrown off in other directions. Conflicted emotions are at play, but more importantly, our perception of love is blocked.
Only after years of cleaning out the inner blockages of repression, doubt, negative emotions, and old conditioning does a person realize that God’s force is immensely powerful. When this occurs, nothing can pull the mind away from love.
Love as a personal emotion is transmuted into a cosmic energy. Rumi puts it beautifully: ‘Oh God! I have discovered love! How marvelous, how good, how beautiful it is! … I offer my salutation. To the spirit of passion that aroused and excited this whole universe. And all it contains.’
Rumi believes that every atom in creation dances in a passion for God, such is a stage six (unlimited citizen of the universe) awareness.
It takes a quantum leap in consciousness to love God all the time, yet when the leap is finally made, there is really no God to love, not as a separate object. The fusion of the worshiper and what he worships is nearly complete. But that is enough to animate everything in creation.
‘This is the love,’ Rumi declares, ‘that brings our body to life.’ ”
How To Know God – The Soul’s Journey Into The Mystery Of Mysteries, Deepak Chopra, p. 146-147.
