On Love and its noose~

"“Love is God’s trap,”
and love is also the noose
around the neck of the lover,
hanging him till he dies
so that the Beloved can live within him:
“The Beloved is living, the lover is dead.”
To quote al-Ghazzâlî: “There is nothing good in love without death.”
Slowly the ego dies.
Slowly the lover gets absorbed into the Beloved. "


Vaughan-Lee, Llewellyn (1993-03-01). The Bond with the Beloved: The Inner Relationship of the Lover and the Beloved (Kindle Locations 1035-1037). The Golden Sufi Center. Kindle Edition.