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      Rumi

      by Aloha Jacqueline

      · Soul Poetry

      Rumi is quoted

      As having said:

      "Fall in love, and stay there."

      When I read that recently,

      I cried

      Because I believe

      I deeply realized

      the truth

      Of what he meant

      On a level beyond

      Romance

      and limerance

      Infatuation

      and desire

      Beyond relationships

      Human needs

      wounded relating patterns.

      I believe

      what he meant

      About staying in love

      Was to stay in the state of love

      Falling

      into yourself actually

      The love

      You already are

      That you've just been

      Hiding from

      Blocking yourself from

      Believing you needed to find

      To earn from the outside

      But rather than

      suppressing your love

      Out of fear

      Rather choose to be

      And Live

      In that state of total love

      Expansion

      Openness

      Generosity

      Care

      Curiosity

      How we might be

      with a lover at first

      Except now,

      We can be that way

      with everything

      Always

      Staying in that state,

      not just the feeling

      So that even when

      The object of your affection

      Doesn't feel the same

      Or they leave

      Of the form changes

      You can stay there

      In love

      without fear

      And even stay in joy

      Experiencing

      a powerful liberation

      Of connection with Self

      Our divine Self

      Our love.

      It's totally normal

      to access this state

      Of love

      Through a Beloved person

      Yet it's risky

      When we believe

      they are responsible for this experience

      Or we think this love we feel is because of them

      Or we make it fully about them

      When it's not

      It's risky because

      Romance generally comes along

      with many unconscious expectations

      And unhealed childhood wounds

      Projected roles and needs onto others

      We have not yet owned ourselves.

      So let's just be conscious, shall we?

      And not get lost

      Or fall out of love

      Or close our hearts

      In fear

      Or based on mental ideas

      of safety.

      Don't think the love you are 

      is them,

      because it's not actually about them

      You're just

      knowing yourself

      Remembering yourself

      Your Love

      Through their reflection

      A beautiful gift

      A beautiful reflection

      Of your essence

      For which your Beloved

      Can be thanked

      And released

      From needing to remain

      Or be or do anything

      Other than they are.

      So, my dears

      Free your lovers

      Your Beloveds

      Free yourselves

      Fall in love

      Fall into your love

      Fall Into yourself

      And stay there

      And you'll forever

      Be in love

      With you

      With them

      Regardless.

      And perhaps by staying there

      In your love

      We may one day

      be met there

      By another

      In their love

      In their fullness

      And share love

      with each other

      Yet staying

      Whole

      Authentic

      Free.

      It's truly

      possible to be

      Safe in love

      Free in love

      Honoring love

      That really is

      True love

      To me.

      PS:

      This poem is part of a trilogy of poems exploring Love.

      Part 1: How Do I Love You?

      Part 2: Freedom

      Part 3: Rumi

       

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