Encouragement

A beautiful Sufi teaching shows us how our pain is not personal, it is an intrinsic part of being alive:

Overcome any bitterness that may have come
because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain
that was entrusted to you.
Like the Mother of the World,
Who carries the pain of the world in her heart,
Each one of us is part of her heart,
And therefore endowed
With a certain measure of cosmic pain.

Rilke’s words:

I yearn to be held
In the great hands of your heart—
Oh let them take me now.
Into them I place these fragments, my life…

  

Rabindranath Tagore:  

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers

but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain

but for the heart to conquer it.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield

but to my own strength.

Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved

but hope for patience to win my freedom.

Sarvamangalam!

Blessings to all!

Mark 11:24

”What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,

believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”