Book Description

When you say "I love you" to someone or something, what do you mean by that? What do you mean when you say "I love you" to your mother? And is it the same love that you and your partner share? Is it the same love you have for your favorite food? Or for your favorite pet? And what about the love for your best friend? Is it the same love you feel about your clothes? Your car? Your city? And if the feeling of love is strong, raging, and flowing, is there a point where it reaches a certain peak and starts to weaken? Or is it constantly nourishing and expanding? Do you love yourself? And what about loving the people around you? Even if you don't know them? Love in my belief, and according to my enjoyable experience, is a large orchestra that contains multiple types of musicians, which each is enjoying and radiating a unique form of love, but all are harmoniously playing a wonderful symphony that connect all of them to the one source of everything. Love is an essential component of the pure and genuine human instinct, that is not contaminated by misconceptions and twisted doctrines (intentionally or unintentionally), or by the separation believes about the nature of the relationship between the tree and the branch, as the branch in itself is not separate or independent from the tree but to the contrary, it is an inherent part of it. Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi is one of the pioneers of the global love ideology that does not discriminate between human beings in any way, but melts them in one pot of kindness, compassion, and unity, and such wisdoms have echoed in the hearts of love longing souls around the globe, so his wis*dom have reached the 4 corners of the world and his words overflowing with divine love have become a global calling for human unity with the one and only source of LOVE. Some of his famous wisdoms go like this: "Your job is not to search for love, but rather to remove the internal barriers that prevent you from reaching it within you." Just as the lazy darkness dissipates in the presence of a glimmer of light, also the difficulties of the game of life will disappear by simply allowing the light of love to shine through the sides of the soul to replace the thoughts of separation, fear, and hatred for the self and for the other, whatever or whoever it is. Until today, I was able to count 71 forms of love that I lived as a personal experience, and in this book I would like to share them with you in the form of lite short stories, hoping that they might stimulate the same beautiful echo that I touched in my life and still do, for it is in fact seventy one gifts from the beloved, who enlightened my vision and my insight, so I saw, realized and loved all those gifts and their giver, and I still excitingly looking for more. These forms are what I have been able to see and practice until this day, but they are not all forms of love, because as I mentioned to you earlier, every creature is a unique substance worthy of love, and perhaps you and I could practice many other wonderful forms in the future, each according to our desire and the extent of our openness and acceptance of what the game of life offers us. My goal of this book is not to gain the acceptance and approval of everyone, because satisfying all people is an impossible goal, but I am sure that many, and perhaps you, dear reader among them, have refreshed their hearts with some of these wonderful forms of love, and this book is to gather those lovers who share common interests. You might not be interested in all subjects of the book, and that is fine because as I mentioned before, it is my own experience and yours is different for sure, based on your own interests. Allow me now to take you on a journey inside my heart, where these forms inhabit and share the spacious place with their different sizes, shapes, and sweet melodies that generously spread In all sides of my life. Let's go.... ANAS