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When love beckons to you
Follow Him
Though his ways are hard and steep
And when His wings enfold you
Yield to Him
And when He speaks to you
Believe Him
For love gives naught but itself
Takes naught from itself
Love possesses not
Nor would it be possessed
For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love, you should not say
"God is in my heart"
But rather
"I am in the heart of love."
And think not that you can direct the course of love
For love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
You have to work that you may keep pace with the earth
And the soul of the earth
For to be idle is to become a stranger to the seasons
And to step out of life's procession that marches in majesty
And submission towards the infinite.
When you work, you are a flute through whose heart
The whispering of the hours turns to music
Which of you would be dumb and silent
When all else sings in unison?
To love labour through life is to be intimate with life's most inmost secret
To work with love is to weave the cloth
With threads drawn from your heart
Even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to sow seeds
With tenderness
And reap harvet
With Joy
Even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit
It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit
And to know that all the blessed dead
Are standing about you and watching.
OM SHANTI