The Supreme Inner Courage of the Mystic

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The Sufi mystics are supreme masters of this knowledge of suffering, because

they are supreme masters of the alchemical " science " of love. And what is the

path of the Mother but the path of love? And how can pain be avoided on that

path, especially in a time like ours, when to open to the facts of what is

happening to our psyches and to the environment is to open inevitably to agony

and horror and the prospect of ultimate catastrophe? In such an opening to the

full pain of the facts and the full pain of real transformation, the Sufi

mystics, with their profound understanding of the nature of adoration and of the

transforming mercy of accepted heartbreak, can be extraordinary and helpful

" midwives " of a new possibility.

 

The heart, everyone's heart, is longing to give birth; and giving birth,

becoming a " mother " of our own divine self, is the aim of human life. Accepting

the price of this birth of fearlessness is the courage of the Divine Feminine,

the supreme inner courage of the mystic, and leads to what the Sufis know as the

ultimate state of union with reality, of being able to " dance " with adoration

and nondual bliss in all dimensions simultaneously. And as Rumi reminds us, with

the authentic passion and realism of the Divine Feminine, " Dancing is not

raising your feet painlessly like a whirl of dust blown about by the wind.

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and

giving up your soul. "

 

The Divine Feminine

Andrew Harvey & Anne Baring - Conari Press

Berkeley, CA

ISBN 1-57324-035-4 (hardcover)

Pgs. 125.