“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.” ~ Rumi How can you know hot if you don’t know cold? How can you know pleasure if you don’t know pain? How can you know what you like if…
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.” ~ Rumi Every aspect of life, whether conscious or unconscious, has its ebbs…
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi Vulnerability opens doors. How can anything get in when you always have your guard up? As you surrender to the moment, to the emotion, and let down your resistance, you allow life to flow. It’s freeing. It’s healing. Open the wound, my friend,…
“The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.” ~ Rumi How is it that Spirit sees nothing to blame? Is it because Spirit knows that there is a purpose behind everything? That in some way everything serves our highest good — our spiritual growth and evolution? Being that we’re looking…
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor… Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful…
“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.” ~ Rumi Our minds are so clever. They can come up with millions of ways to justify being angry, resentful, sad, depressed, disappointed, upset, etc. You name it, my friend, if it’s a negative emotion, reason has played some part in it being present. You can be…
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi Vulnerability opens doors. How can anything get in when you always have your guard up? As you surrender to the moment, to the emotion, and let down your resistance, you allow life to flow. It’s freeing. It’s healing. Open the wound, my friend,…
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath…
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.” ~ Rumi Every aspect of life, whether conscious or unconscious, has its ebbs…
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor… Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful…