Swedenborg & Sufis on Love

Swedenborg & Sufis on Love

What are your plans for Valentine’s Day? Will you give a valentine to someone you love? Will you give a Valentine to God?

When we think about those we love, we rarely include God on that list. We usually see our love for the Divine as completely different from our love for each other.
 
Yet many mystics from many traditions have written of their love for God with a fiery passion, and have expressed it in poetry. Much of the mystical poetry of the world is a kind of valentine to God expressing a passionate love.
 
In the Sufi tradition, God is the “Beloved,” for whom one has the deepest of feelings.

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