What Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali describes in his excerpt is delightful. He claims that all joy is loved, and that where beauty is perceived it is natural to love it. And if God is beauty, he must be loved by those to whom his beauty and majesty are revealed. Our soul can attain eternal life and become Godlike through knowledge and love.
I really like the concepts of perseverance, strength, vulnerability, having aspirations, hope, enjoying every moment of life, but I think passion and love are behind each of those. One day perhaps I’ll be able to think up some magnificent tattoo that can incorporate an expression of this. Al-Ghazali defines passion for me: “Love, when it has grown strong and overwhelming, is called passion, which is love firmly established and limitless.” Some people view passion as something that doesn’t last- primarily in relationships. They are under the misconception that there is passion in the beginning of the relationship, yet it cannot continue. Al-Ghazali’s prior enlightened words directly contradict that and claims that passion has no limits and can be firmly established. I like to believe that this statement holds some truth in it.
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I like what you are saying here about passion. I think that is is something that is highly mistaken for what it really is. But with that said passion blossoms into a form of passion maybe not one of such intensity as it once was but something more mature and controled i guess you could say. I think the passion is always there yet in different forms.
ReplyDeleteI like what you said about passion. I think passion has a lot to do with things that people do. And passion can be the root of many emotions in ways. I think thats why passion in the form of love is the reason people in love do crazy things they normally wouldn't do. And when people have such strong passion for their God and religion, maybe thats why they do crazy things as well.
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