The Rarest Emotion (a.m. channelling)

*

The word of Christ is that God is love;

and if God is love,

then we,

every one of us,

can prove God in us 

by expressing God in our life.

(from: Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Unity of Religious Ideals)

The rarest emotion

is love

We talk of it

     We sing of it

        We long for it

rarely

do we feel it.

The pessimists and skeptics would call

the quest for love

unrealistic.

But it's only unreal

to them

because it's so rare.

But it is real.

Saying that love

is a fiction

is like saying

that we're the only planet

in the solar system

that can support

life

( washingtonpost )

~ ~ ~

Now, jealousy 

=

we can do that;

it's easy because

it's based on what we see

in the material world

(which we live in)

So, too, is

desire

lust

and 

wistfulness.

~ ~ ~ 

Hatred

is easier 

than love

because it's born

in the place where

the material bound emotions

meet the metaphysical

ie:

the spiritual.

You see,

because 

some emotions are

             body born

                          and some

are not.

~ ~ ~ 

Emotions are the fruit

of the interaction

between

the material

and

the spiritual;

the mortal

and 

the immortal.

Some are more in

one domain,

some 

in the other.

And there are various

gradations

in between.

( AstronomyPictureofDay  

6 October 2010)

Love 

is the only pure emotion

lodged

solely

in the spiritual,

the immortal

domain,

and in that sense

it is the rarest emotion

and

the one

to strive for.