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Plus près de toi que tu ne l’es
toi-même
(Closer to you than you are
yourself)
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Exalted,
celebrated, glorified, magnified from all Eternity !
O You, have
mercy upon us in your great mercifulness !
O You,
Master of our strength, Rock of our shelter,
Shield of
our salvation, You protect us !
You have
arranged the rays of the sun and fixed the stars.
Every being,
every thing, sings to your almightiness
!
O You who is
eternal, You love us of an infinite love.
O You who is
Wisdom, You have for us an immense and excessive tenderness.
Love is the
Name which is given Him…
No other
Name is more suitable for Him,
So precious
is love,
So beautiful
is love.
He does
nothing but loving.
The Merciful
One sustains all those that fall,
The Sympathetic
One straightens all those that are bended,
He satisfies
as one could wish everything that has life.
There is no
hunger, there is no thirst for the one having confidence in Him.
He
listens to the one that suffers adversity,
His
heart is compassionate for the one that calls upon Him…
You
are my companion ;
Where
ever my path goes,
You
hold my hand and guide me.
You
are my only sustainer,
Ceaselessly
on my side, carrying my yoke
On the road where I walk along…
When
I loose my way while walking,
You
make me find again the Way,
You
encourage me and convince me to go further.
And
now, I am penetrated and surrounded by Your joy.
Each
moment, each day are blessed.
You
penetrate each moment of my life,
You
transform my hopes and my occupations…
Your
love, without cease, fills my heart.
Here
is the One coming to enlighten the world
To
appease the multitudes
And to offer them happiness and support.
Here
is the One that has an infinitely more greater love
Then
the love of a father and a mother for their child,
The
One that loves without discrimination
And embraces with His compassion all living beings.
My
delights surpass
For
you all other delights…
The
pleasures I give you
Surpass
all other pleasures…
I
am the Beauty, am I the Grace,
Love
me, my Beloved,
Love
me…
No
one is closer to you than Me.
While
the others love you
In
order to love themselves through you,
Myself,
I love you for yourself.
If
you get close to Me,
It’s
because I’ve come to you…
I
am closer to you than you are yourself,
Closer
to you than your soul,
Closer
to you than your breath…
Laurent Mettraux
The texts
used are taken from the Yotser (Jewish blessing from
the VIII. Century, after Isaiah 45:7), from the Ahava
(other Jewish blessing), from the Cherubinischer Wandersmann by Angelus Silesius,
from Psalm 145, from the Gospel according to the tradition of John, from the
great Hymn to the Sun (written at the time of Amenemhat
II), from two poems by Toukaram, from the Ekottarâgamasûtra, the Great Sûtra
of Infinite Life (Dai-Muryojukyo), the Sûtra of the Contemplation of Infinite Life (Kan-Muryojukyo), and from a mystical poem by Ibn ’Arabi.