burning

We burn for that which we do not have. This is a peculiar form of hell -- a small version. After we get it, we stop burning. Meister Eckhart says that what burns in hell is what we are not. When we are fire, fire does not burn us. When we do not open to the Mystery that births us, we burn. We burn in anger, in fear, in separation. We burn for That which we do not have. And yet It is here within us all the while. We are children of the Mystery, offspring of the Source. When we truly know that, identify with, become identical to that, we stop burning. We leave hell. The heat changes to Light.