an extract from a book

20/01/07
A thought transfixed me for the first time in my life. I saw the truth, as it is sent into a song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth that, love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry, human thought and belief have to impart: the salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cant express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way- an honorable way- in such a position man can thru loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words, “The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.”
I knew only one thing- that I have learnt well by now. Love goes far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
“Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.”