I had picked up this book "Gazing at the Beloved" from SF Library's book sale. It was no coincidence. That book was needed for me. I learnt more about Tabrizi who was the muse to the poet that was Rumi.
“Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.”
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“Be involved in the input; be involved in the output; detach yourself from the outcome”.
Lol! This is from an official meeting. My job wants me to fix me now..
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities - Aristotle
The amount of eye roll this statement would've gotten from me is not even worth mentioning. I just realized, I did grow up eventually and can at least fathom what Aristotle meant. Not that I am doing any of it, just barely understood what the man said. It also made me realize that reading, understanding and truly understanding something are 3 different things. And understanding something does not imply one is capable of doing it.
Lol! the joke is on all of us. The masters have laid it thick in simple statements - the layers of which cannot be even scratched by mere mortals like us.
This entire phase where I cannot lean on anyone has been created for the growth of me! Oh what joy.. for once I know that I have everything that I need within me. This discovery makes me so happy. It was always in me, that what I was looking for, outside of me.
My choices of people, situation arose from the fact that I did not know myself better. Hah! I was looking for everything that was always within me :-)
So I told her, " You have to like yourself"
She nodded.
I asked her, "When will you like yourself?"
She said, "When I am confidant.."
I asked her again, "When will you be confidant?"
She said, "When I actually do things and not fake it."
I wish I was around for me when I was 9...
When the time comes for you to change or grow, the Universe will make you feel so uncomfortable that you will eventually have no choice.
Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.
Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.
You have to meet people where they are and sometimes you have to leave them there.
Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.
Happiness lies in the eyes which is the window to the soul. The peace, relief and calmness shows the state of a being and it can always be found in the eyes.
We are living in a matrix. Everything that we are experiencing is planned and it is happening just as it should. Every moment of struggle and peace is planned. It is so because just as in a perfect program, the variables and constants can take only certain values in a particular workflow. We are playing out a script, we are bound by that script and even when we know that there is a script, there is nothing more to be done than to wait for the script to play out.
There are things happening as per design. Characters in a certain situation are behaving as per design - for my benefit. It is up to me to view this as a boon or a bane. But overall the universe is merciful - it is trying to make me better. It wants me to elevate myself to the next level. It has no other intention. Hence I try to see everything as a boon. Every problem as they say is an opportunity.
It makes me feel safe, this planned life in this planned matrix. I mean, some where I'd be a lot more worried if this was all baseless and pointless. There is a point to this.
I have to be the best version of me. And so does everyone else.
