' The Primal Pain of Longing '...

Deep within the heart there is the primal pain of longing, the cry of the soul separated from its source.

This pain comes from the memory of when we were together with God, what the Sufis call "the sweetness that was before honey or bee."

At special moments in our life we can be given a taste of this union, a taste of divine remembrance.

It is so unbelievably sweet and intoxicating.

And it awakens the knowing, latent in the soul, of being together with God.

This is what ignites the longing, the fire within the heart that begins to burn as a heartache.



- Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee