If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.
~ Mevlana Rumi Quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance
The element of fire is alive inside of all of us. It is there to burn brightly to create or destroy depending on how we wish to invoke it's power within our lives. In effect fire creates space through what it helps to release. Fire burns through what no longer serves us and allows us leave behind whatever separates us from us. What we are left with in the ashes is love. It gets hot and intense and sometimes feels like you are going to burn away completely, and sometimes that is true as well. Sometimes we need to pass away for the larger life, or larger love to live on within us. Ultimately that's where the practice can take us.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin says it like this "Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
Fire is something you have to spark though. You have to invite the fire in. No one can do it for you. If they try it's like trying to light a wet piece of wood. It's not going to happen no matter how hard they try.
In every moment and in every practice can you give yourself permission to burn?
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