Friendship

When the conventional mind shatters and one moves from the exoteric forms of religion to their esoteric core, the heart opens and welcomes all mystics of whatever tradition into itself as friends, and some as teachers (just as Yeshua was such a teacher).

All these are friends of the Friend, for they too have found the Beloved One (You) without whom they cannot and will not live. And it has changed everything—transformed every last thing in the universe.  And this “finding” is the key to life, and so now, nothing else, all the details, the obligations, the duties and the rules fail to excite or unite. They simply fall away to meaninglessness, and cannot hold the soul in thrall (or enthralled) any longer.

The household of friends has entirely changed. It is now filled with the lovers, poets, saints, and sages from everywhere, and we all sit down in friendship together at the feast in that vast Kingdom that both is and eternally awaits us.