A Mutual Embrace

"This is the practice of everything that is loved and loves,
A mutual embracing...is Divinely ordained between eternal and non-eternal and between substance and accident.
Love banished them from the throne and made them footless and headless and destitute.
Love is honey for the grown up, and milk for children: for every boat it is like the last freight loaded, which causes the boat to founder.
Many kings, beyond number, has Love torn from their kingdoms and families.
A hundred thousand heads go for a farthing at the moment when Love strings his bow...
But may the soul's pasture be the ransom for Love's lion, who is killed by this Love and his scimitar.
It is a killing better than a thousand lives: all sovereignties are mortally enamored of this servitude."

Rumi (Vol. 6, 3951-4006)

Commentary: Do not assume that Love's embrace will always feel sweet and easy...