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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460135" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Love is difficult: Isaac of Nineveh</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love is difficult<br>until it’s easy..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How to write of this, <br>unless, until, we’re like him.. old and wise and<br>blind with reading and austerity, <br>speaking of what he’d become; <br>so that we, enfolded in his love, <br>become a little, that of which he writes? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On his painful, joyful, great adventure<br>to become the world, <br>seen as Creation sees it, <br>his heart so loved the mind, <br>his mind so loved the heart; that<br>these two walked together, <br>climbed hard mountains, <br>washed in cool, fresh streams; <br>were compassionate of each other’s failings; <br>rejoiced in each other’s purity.<br>Call this what you know of it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First, he sought the body’s freedom<br>to be the tool of what was asked of it; <br>call this what you know of it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, he sought what the unconscious mind<br>threw up from depths yet still not deep enough: <br>‘logismoi’ was the name some gave: <br>those seeds of action which he learned to listen to<br>to know whether they brought light, <br>or that darkness which is hard, agitated, cold, <br>these all at once..<br>call this what you know of it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, love was easy: nothing was profane, <br>nothing sacred; he, sanctified, <br>sanctified the world around him; <br>his soul, when you were near him, <br>seemed to exhale a subtle, joyful fragrance<br>which changed the air around him; <br>embraced you in unspoken prayer<br>for all the world in mind: even devils, <br>serpents, sin, were thus embraced; <br>is this purity, compassion? <br>Call this, what you know of it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All things then revealed to him<br>the secret of their being; <br>the visible, teaching the invisible; <br>the manifest teaching the unmanifest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s said that Isaac was described<br>as ‘priest of all the world, <br>celebrating at the altar of his heart’; <br>call this, what you know of it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For love is difficult<br>until it’s easy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">*<br>{Saint Isaac of Nineveh was born c.625 AD/CE<br>at what is now Qatar on the shores<br>of the Persian Gulf; especially beloved<br>in 19th century Russia.}</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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How to write of this, 
unless, until, we’re like him.. old and wise and
blind with reading and austerity, 
speaking of what he’d become; 
so that we, enfolded in his love, 
become a little, that of which ..."></div>
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