sacrifice

Attar says that if you want to learn the secrets of love that your soul can know, "You will sacrifice evertyhing. You will lose what you have considered valuable, but eventually you'll hear the voice you've most wanted to hear saying, Yes. Come in."

Another Sufi, Junnaiyd, recommends that we JUMP! "Plunge headfirst into the ocean of your loving. Then look around patiently for the pearl that is yours."

Really there is no end to love's unfolding, and no one can tell you how yours should or will go.

Everyone has in them the great love that Rumi's poetry comes out of. It is the given that never goes away.