Place of Refuge

Place of Refuge

16 October 2010

the love that exceeds (a channelling)

(Sounio, south of Athens, Greece
photo by Makropoulos)

When we love
      with a love
                 that exceeds
our expectations of love,
we ignite a fire
in our being
that unites with
the infinite,
the penetrating
incapacitating
                     power of the All
is engendered there.
(also at Sounio,
photo by Makropoulos)


Incapacitating
                it is
because it erases
our
mortal individuality
and implicates us
in a nameless
immortality.

(The human
and all that it imagines 
and comprehends,
even of love,
has boundaries -----
the temporal frame
of earth 
and life and death

and the portrait of
                  our living
that that frame embraces---

is our lives
is our lives.

(pebbles through water 
off a beach
in Kythnos, Greece
photo by Makropoulos)

That frame,
the only portal
at our disposal
that gives us acccess
to the beyond

is the subtle,             
delicate
heart
                             so inextricably wedded
to mind

and the melody
                           plucked on the strings
      that bind
them

is the song of our love
seducing us to love

beyond our limits.

When we love
      with a love
                 that exceeds
our expectations of love,
we ignite a fire
in our being
that unites with
the infinite,

the penetrating
incapacitating
                     power of the All
is engendered there.













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