Here you will find quotes, writings, thoughts and observations. I’m not really a ‘blogger’ but some things are too good to let by…
Rocking on Rumi – an excerpt from my book and an explanation of Rumi’s insistence on periods of solitude.
“The purpose of solitude is not to isolate you from life, but to reconnect you with it, because how can you truly meet another if you have never met yourself? How can you love someone honestly if you have not stood in the mirror and faced the parts of yourself you’ve long disowned? In solitude you begin to integrate, you begin to forgive, you begin to remember that you are not your wounds, not your past, not your failures – you are the one who sees them all – you are the witness, the eternal awareness that was here before the pain and will be here after the healing. This awareness is subtle, it does not announce itself. It waits for your surrender – and when you finally stop fighting, the moment when you no longer resist your own company, it rises, quiet, expansive, like a gentle sunrise over an ancient sea.”
“We don’t see things the way they are, we see them the way we are” – Anais Nin