QUOTE : I have loved in life and I have been loved.<br />I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as<br />nectar, and have been raised above life’s joy and sorrow.<br />My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in<br />touch with it.<br />My heart has been rent and joined again;<br />My heart has been broken and again made whole;<br />My heart has been wounded and healed again;<br />A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it<br />lives yet.<br />I went through hell and saw there love’s raging fire, and I<br />entered heaven illumined with the light of love.<br />I wept in love and made all weep with me;<br />I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men;<br />And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks burst<br />forth as volcanoes.<br />The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear;<br />With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried aloud<br />the name of my beloved, I shook the throne of God in<br />heaven.<br />I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged<br />of love,<br />“Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret.”<br />She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth,<br />and spoke softly in my ear,“My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover, and thyself art<br />the beloved whom thou hast adored.”<br /><br />COMPLETE SAYINGS , 693