The Seven Stages of Love: A Journey from Attraction to liberation
Where Sufism meets the Vedas, and the heart learns to dissolve "Love is not a feeling. It is the very fire in which the self is burned until nothing remains but the Beloved." Rumi There are journeys that take you across oceans, and then there are journeys that take you through yourself. The journey of love is the second kind the harder, the more terrifying, the more beautiful kind. It begins with a glance and ends, if you are brave enough to let it, with the total dissolution of everything you thought you were. The ancient wisdom traditions of the Indian subcontinent and the mystic schools of Sufism both understood something that modern romance seldom dares to teach: Love is not a destination. It is a transformation. What begins as attraction ends not at the altar, not in a home with children and a garden but in a kind of sacred death, a beautiful annihilation of the ego in the fire of the Beloved. Across centuries, poets like Rumi, Hafez, and ...