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There is a promise in every deep yearning. Every desire carries within it the seed of its own satisfaction. The trick is to relax into the tension of that yearning. Initially, it feels painful, like an unsatisfied thirst. But when the magnetic power of that thirst grows strong enough, it generates a sort of heat that quickens the seed, germinating the latent potential and causing it to sprout and grow.
So too with the thirst for God.
Real thirst, real, all-consuming desire for the Divine, always brings a fulfilling response from heaven, no matter how bleak the soul may feel.
And, contrary to the mind's assumption, that fulfillment does not come from a busy head that builds thought upon thought until it reaches some "perfect" thought. Fulfillment in the thirst for the Divine descends like gentle rain from a still mind, an empty sky.
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Ivan
M. Granger's original poetry, stories and commentaries are Copyright ©
2002 - 2009 by Ivan M. Granger.
All other material is copyrighted by the respective authors, translators and/or
publishers.
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