We must keep our vision in life. If we don’t, we are like a hamster running on a wheel, hurrying and hurrying but getting nowhere. Notice, on the other hand, how a caterpillar sits in its cocoon for ‘ages’ & then becomes a butterfly. Some of the most tremendous growth available to us in this life can only come by sitting still.
Nice quote from Hazrat Inayat Khan: “There is no such thing as impossible. All is possible. Impossible is made by the limitation of our capacity of understanding. Man, blinded by the law of nature’s working, by the law of consequences which he has known through his few years life on earth, begins to say, ‘This is possible and that is impossible.’ If he were to rise beyond limitations, his soul would see nothing but possible. And when the soul has risen high enough to see all possibility, that soul certainly has caught a glimpse of God.” And another: “Many have … Continue reading
Light is a Gift. All light. But the problem is that too often, when we receive the gift, we forget to thank the giver. And too often, we think we have earned the light. We have not earned it. It is a gift. Just as spoiled children throw a temper tantrum when they don’t have something they want, we throw a temper tantrum when we think we deserve some light we don’t have. Because we have forgotten, or maybe never even learned, that light is a gift. Light is a gift. Appreciate it. & Thank the Giver.
