“Perhaps love isn’t the word for it. Something greater than the personal opens, burns, and rises through. It cannot be understood or described, but it can be lived. There is a mystery called the glance, the gift, nazaar… I don’t think it matters whether one has a living teacher or not, one can still live in the glance of the soul guide, the inner friendship. A wonderful statement of that enveloping vision is Rumi’s line, ‘I see my beauty in you.’ A spiritual alchemy takes place inside the glance. Desire changes and becomes a continuous moment… The realm of the glance is beyond touch and somehow within touch too.”
~ Rumi: The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting translated by Coleman Barks
