When The Heart Is Closed, Remain Open To Love

There are times when we long to be able to help someone whom we love very much, but we can do nothing. Circumstances will not allow us to approach them, or the person is closed off to any gesture of solidarity and support. Then all we are left is love. At such times, when we can do nothing else, we can still love – without expecting any reward or change or gratitude. If we do this, the energy of love will begin to transform the universe about us. Wherever this energy appears, it always achieves its ends. ‘Time does not transform man. Will-power does not transform man. Love transform,’ says Henry Drummond.
Love transforms and love cures; but, sometimes, love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely. What is this complex feeling which, deep down, is only reason we continue to live, struggle and improve?
I can’t define it, because I, along with every other human being, can only feel it. But I have learned that this feeling is present in the small things, and manifest itself in the most insignificant of our action. It is necessary, therefore, to keep love always in mind, regardless of whatever or not we take action. And when nothing is possible, when all that remains is loneliness, then remember this story.

A rose dreamed day and night about bees, but no bee ever landed on her petals. The flower, however, continued to dream. During the long nights, she imagined a heaven full of bees, which flew down to bestow fond kisses on her. By doing this, she was able to last until the next day, when she opened again to the light of the sun.
One night, the moon, who knew of the rose’s loneliness, asked:
‘Aren’t you tired of waiting?’
‘Possibly, but I have to keep trying.’
‘Why?’
‘Because if I don’t remain open, I will simply fade away.’

At times, when loneliness seems to crush all beauty, the only way to resist is to remain open.

Oh, Allah, I turn to You because You know everything, even what is hidden.
If what I am doing is good for me and for my religion, for my life now and hereafter, then let the task be easy and blessed.
If what I am doing is bad for me and for my religion, for my life now and hereafter, remove me from that task.
(Prophet Muhammad S.A.W.)

~ Source: LTFR ~