Monday, September 29, 2008

Love Between GOD and Humankind - Sufi metaphor

Moth: I gave you my life.
Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.

- these two lines from the twentieth century Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan explains the meaning of love between God and humankind through the simple and ancient Sufi metaphor of moth being consumed in the flame of the candle."

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