22 Sep | a.m

For the head raised up in the love of God will certainly fall by the sword, and the life that is kindled with longing will surely be sacrificed, and the heart which remembereth the Loved One will surely brim with blood. How well is it said:

 

Live free of love, for its very peace is anguish;

Its beginning is pain, its end is death.

[Arabian poem.]

 

- Baha'u'llah, The Seven Valleys, p. 41