Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Shakespeare Sonnet 116
Sonnet 116 Let me not to marriage of true minds admit impediments.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

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 I love this sonnet.

I love this poem
the first time i read it
i was so happy to see
that such writer and similar people
to whom he was giving voice
had felt that kind of Love
so that his very writing
was testifying for the existence of such a Love.

like such voices were still alive
and their presence
was the proof of that True Love.

the marriage of true minds
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds
but is an ever fixed star
to every wandering bark
whose worth unknown,
though its height be taken

it looks on tempest
never to be shaken





how our own experience
may near such Love?

the closest example i found today
is the Innocence.

before i used to say
if only it was possible to regain innocence.

because i used to feel that
once we have grown up
time has left its mark upon us
and it is too late to even dream of innocence.

whatever you may do
you will ALWAYS have the mark of time
upon you
such as memories
which have by their very presence cancelled innocence in you.
too late.

so the only way to regain innocence
would be to erase all memory of your experiences in yourself
and erase yourself from people's mind.

i honestly looked for that.
could such a method exist?
and was it possible to regain innocence?
while by definition innocence
is something that is ONLY the initial nature
(so a return to it is impossible!
if you have lost it , it is impossible to regain it).

that used to be my conviction.

and yet!
one day i saw the face of a person
who had GAINED in innocence
how was it possible to GAIN innocence?
that was in TOTAL contradiction with the trend of life!

his face had been completely radiating SAME innocence
that a baby face does!
it was like he had found the face of innocence
as when he was born.
and this innocence was increasing with time on his face
and his manners were also becoming softer
so was his speach.

that was amazing for me.

that is when i gained hope
yes, innocence CAN be regained!




so before i could witness
but not understand the source of this change.

now, i can understand the source of this change,
and : ) do miss seeing such faces around me.

for these faces
are a living testimony
of a true desire of a person for God.
what else?
if not for True Love?

Today,
i learned that
the innocence,
Bless be the name of God,
i am so happy
i have to digress again,

do YOU REALISE?
one CAN REGAIN INNOCENCE
WHILE BY DEFINITION
i used to think once lost, it IS LOST.

: ))


so
innocence is this center of energy in us,
which  get more and more unclouded from
that which was not innocence in us

like the sun which was never gone
but only dark clouds had to be removed
so that sun may be seen again shining

this is why it appears that a person
becomes more and more innocent.
in reality the innocence was always there
but it was just clouded

the most important for this
is
to follow the path towards this goal
and that is
not to seek faults/criticism of others

for we are just using out cunning wits
to thicken the clouds in us
while we could just let them go
with the wind

when the wind lead us to meet people
it is for us a helpful test
for "they" are just our INSIDE projection
we project them
and their opinion of us becomes what we believe "who we are"
so we are enclosed in a mutual projection

while if ON THE SPOT
we realise
that they are our own inner projections

then as a wise person
we will not try to bend the spoon
for it is impossible (matrix)

for the outside being a projection of the inside
it canNOT be changed
so how can one fix them?
by fixing ourselves inside.

so to change ourselves inside
means
to KNOW ON THE SPOT
with an ACUTE ATTENTION:
I KNOW that they are me
so i LET GO. and FORGIVE.

Let them forgive and OVERLOOK. Do you not wish Allah to forgive you {and overlook your faults}? (God is forgiving and merciful.)
Quran [24.22]

What are you looking at the straw in your brother’s eye for? And the beam in your own eye, do you not notice it?” (Luke 6:41)
-jesus peace be upon him.

it means that the straw/defect
we are seeing in others
are just pointing into our own defect inside

if we CAN SEE it outside
it means it is INSIDE of us

and the inside can be healed
we can heal ourselves
if we ON THE SPOT
WHEN WE FACE IT
SEE IT
(for it is being shown for this purpose! what else?)
ONCE we KNOW it THEN we let go.

it is the dramatic moment
where either you LET GO
and let the wind carry it out AWAY from YOU
and you are joyful again

or you FEED IT with your power of attention
and make it grow.

so being happy to be able to let go
and thus purifying thereby our attention.
this is HOW God forgive us
when we forgive others.

and we can return as children do to our joyful
and playful activities.


so in a way,
this is the meaning of TEST
being testing by God
means a practical test for YOU
for your OWN self to judge
if you see defect or not in the other
if so,
instead of coming to the silly and unuseful conclusion
that you can change someone
and that they are the bad ones and i am better

JUST TURN INSIDE
ON THE SPOT SAY YOU SEE IT IN YOURSELF
AND FORGIVE

and as children do
return to your joyful play.


written like this
it sounds so easy

but it can become so
with real practice
when we learn to attune to your inner presence
on the very spot.

and like this
you honor yourself
and you honor the other in yourself
and you honor yourself in the other

it is how "marriage of true minds" occur.
it is how your pure love alters not, when it alteration finds
and this is why it is like an ever fixed mark
this is why its height can be taken
by its strength and courage to forgive
where one can use the easy and unproductive way of jumping and lashing out at the "other"

indeed, it is how one look on tempest
never to be shaken

as for the "worth unknown"
the worth of such a person
may indeed remains unknown to blind ones
except for those who love each other for the sake of Truth.


like a last cry for Humanity to testify
for this True Love :

"if this be error
and upon me proved"

"i never writ,
nor no man ever loved."