Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Sufism: The Transformation of the Heart. The Golden Sufi Center, 1995.
God calls us with the irresistible attraction of love, which we experience as longing. In order to fully hear God’s call we have to allow ourself to be dissatisfied and unfulfilled, rather than trying to fill this painful vacuum with another distraction. We have to allow the pain of longing into our life. Longing is both the pain that burns away the veils of separation and the thread that guides us deeper and deeper within, until we are able to enter the innermost chamber of the heart where God is waiting.
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We often think of our longing as something that needs to be resolved, fixed or fulfilled, but many faith traditions, and the Sufi tradition in particular, focus on longing as something that opens us to the divine. We are invited into relationship with the sacred, and if we stop trying to fill the hole of our longing with activities, entertainments, and objects, we find ourselves entering, drawn by the longing, into a deeper experience of this moment, where the sacred resides.
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