“If, like Parvati, our desire is strong enough, we make a full commitment. We see that it’s not enough just to be inspired, to feel longing, to be in love. We have encountered the beloved, but now we need to make ourselves into the vessel that can hold the emerging vision, the vessel that can be the beloved of the Beloved. Rumi wrote, “God too desires us.”7 But God’s desire is for us to become God, to realize our identity with the divine.”