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1 Boundless vision ‘You have been invited to meet “The Friend”. No one can resist a Divine Invitation That narrows all our choices to just two: We can come to God dressed for dancing, Or be carried on a stretcher to God’s ward.’ Hafiz – 14th-century Sufi poet WHEREVER YOU ARE on life’s road, no matter what’s happened to you, how young or old you are, whether you regard yourself as on a spiritual path or not, Boundless Love has something huge to offer you. Boundless Love is the experience of God and your true Self. It brings you home to your inherent wholeness. It is never too late to re-gain it, and your past is irrelevant. It offers you a practical spiritual map to profound joy and peace, beyond the boundaries of your fears, pains and limitations. To the soul, life is all about waking up into the reality of Boundless Love.
I hovered between bliss and deep loneliness. Playing on the beach and enjoying the great outdoors, I looked outwardly like any other kid my age, but inwardly I was always pondering the deeper meaning of things.
I felt a wave of luminous love blow through me. Somehow, I knew it as the presence of God. It was so beautiful, natural and completely familiar, but the service that followed left me very confused. It felt dead, fearful and heavy – the complete opposite of the heaven I had just tasted.
All I wanted to do was to die. At my darkest moment, I remember praying to God – whom I didn’t even know whether I believed in – ‘Please let me die, please God let me die, get me out of here.’
Love is real Much more than simply an emotion, love is the ultimate universal truth. Underneath all pain, problems and suffering, love shines unchanged at the core of all things. Though we may remove ourselves from love, love never departs.
Our ultimate purpose in life is to be the presence of Boundless Love At the highest level, life is a process of spiritual evolution. We are not here solely to further our careers, accrue possessions, pay off the mortgage or even propagate the species. We are here to dissolve our barriers to love.
Allow everything to open you Awakening to the love that we are and the love we have come to offer brings us true happiness. Opening to the spiritual vision of Boundless Love, healing whatever gets in the way of love, stretching our hearts to receive more love, anchoring our minds in the ways of love, and evolving our capacity to give only love is the directive that makes life truly work.
tasted heaven behind our earthly struggles and saw the light that never ceases. I do not exaggerate when I say that what I experienced was perfect order, perfect bliss. Whether I stayed in this state for seconds, minutes or hours I do not know. Time ceased to have relevance. Like a light plug being put into the socket and the switch turned on, I had been spiritually reconnected.
I invite you to consider that the greatest difficulty you have had to face is actually a perfect set-up for you to discover your true purpose in life. Often a spiritual breakthrough comes through some kind of shock or trauma when we are most broken, most on our knees. That is the moment to find the willingness to give up fighting and trying to control. When you have exhausted all other resources and have no energy – surrender. God’s grace will catch you. The more we let go, the easier it is to retrieve the gifts that always lie in direct proportion to any suffering. Luminous pearls grow out of a piece of grit in an oyster shell. Crises can be powerful opportunities for positive change, but extreme openings are not mandatory for a spiritual breakthrough. Everyone’s awakening is unique.
Your consciousness determines everything
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Boundless Love by Holden Miranda presents key insights from the Sufism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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