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This Soul Life
Happiness is peculiar in that it can be paradoxically obtained through disciplined sacrifices or from cultivating gratitude. Consider for a moment that there is more sunlight than there are trees to receive. Why struggle so?
The peculiarities don’t end there. How many trees do you know that are so straight that they tear the sky? Why should your accent to heaven be any more direct? Lightening never take a straight path, and yet it lights the whole sky. Would Rumi be the hidden ruby, his words the flame? Flames waver, flounder in the deserts they create, their seeds scattered like stars. Future fires will rage and die in their own exhausted moments. All stones must be chiseled till their flaws are found perfectly.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along- Rumi.
So, it was Rumi who started that fire? No, but he caught that spark from an errant star.
Accepting the paradoxical truth that ‘in gaining strength you learn kindness is the way,’ results in indominable wisdom. True strength is not merely physical or intellectual, but also moral and compassionate. When we become stronger in our abilities, whether it be in business, sports, or personal growth, we often encounter…
