Note: Kabir Dede shares a beautiful conversation about love and beauty that he had had with his spiritual mentor, which he wrote up and shared with others in this sohbet.
Kabir Dede: “I really want to know what love is—I don’t think I understand it at all.”
Mentor: “Think of love as a resonance, a resonance between the subtle centers (latifas) of your own nervous system and Eternal Spirit (Ruh). You can to some extent awaken it yourself, but the atmosphere and energy of a loving community creates a stronger resonance, and that connection allows more love and beauty to enter into relationships, transforming more and more aspects of ourselves.
It is through this resonance that we will eventually experience moments of ecstatic beauty, as if we are living in the midst of a beautiful love that more and more becomes our natural state and who we are. In that love, the ‘me’ falls away and a ‘we’ remains. This is why Sufis have always organized themselves in this way, and this is why they can achieve so much more than individual practice alone can offer. A current is generated that connects the subtle centers of the heart in communion with the Eternal Creative Spirit, which is the ultimate Beauty. That is why we call it the Beloved and why we are called lovers.
Now you will return, and return again and again, to the work of doing love, to practicing the fruits of love, and to creating beauty. You have more souls to love, and more songs to write.”
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