Blue Flame
“I have found comfort and solace in that translucent element before which all distances, barriers and obstacles vanish away. And the lonely find solace and comfort in nothing but that element, appealing to and seeking the aid of no other. For you – you, who so often dwell in the world of inner meaning – know that the translucent element in us is aloof and remote from all that we do, even from the most eloquent of verbal expressions and the noblest of artistic aspiriations. For even if it were akin to the poetic in us, it could not of itself create lyrics, nor could it give form or colour to its mysteries. Every human being is capable of counterfeit when it comes to his likes and dislikes, or of juggling with or bartering his hunger and thirst. Nor is there a single human being with the ability to reshape his dreams, to exchange one image for another, or to transfer his secrets from one place to another. Can what is frail and meagre in us sway the strong and mighty in us? Can the acquired self, earth-bound as it is, induce alteration and transformation in the innate Self, which is of heaven? For that Blue Flame glows immutable, transforms but is not to be transformed, dictates but cannot be dictated to.”
Kahlil Gibran