With love there are no defenses, and one may be hurt deeply, again and again. And then, as we truly love, the power and majesty and splendor of God come upon us, and this is not always gentle or easy to take. The splendor of God has little in common with a Sunday School picnic, or the parlor game of love. When we allow ourselves to love specifically, fully and consciously, conceretely and in depth, then we are at the very edge of Love itself, of the mystical splendor God. From many sources we are told that the mystical splendor of God will first burn us down, melt away all that does not belong to us, shear us of everything that we thought necessary for life, destroy everything that is not pure gold in us. This is not an easy experience. But it is the most important one in life, and probably the only human expereince that is eternal and cannot be lost.
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