Religious ecstasy and romantic love both derive their hold on the psyche from oxytocin, the neurohormone that is known as the love hormone.
"Religious ecstasy" refers to that feeling of being reborn refered to as "born again". Likewise, true love is the psychic state when the lover feels whole.
Whether born again or made whole, the person experiences a spiritual awakening.
This spiritual awakening feels like being born again to the religious, and becoming whole to the lover.
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The Egolessness of True Love
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In the early morning,
A lover asked her beloved,
"Do you love me more than yourself?"
"More than myself?
For sure I have no self anymore
--I am you already.
The 'I' has gone, the 'you' has come about.
Even my identity is gone.
The answer is taken for granted.
'You and I' has no meaning.
The 'I' has vanished
like a drop in an ocean of honey."
-- from the Masnavi collection of Rumi
In the early morning,
A lover asked her beloved,
"Do you love me more than yourself?"
"More than myself?
For sure I have no self anymore
--I am you already.
The 'I' has gone, the 'you' has come about.
Even my identity is gone.
The answer is taken for granted.
'You and I' has no meaning.
The 'I' has vanished
like a drop in an ocean of honey."
-- from the Masnavi collection of Rumi
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