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“On the level of form, there is birth and death, creation and destruction, growth and dissolution, of seemingly separate forms. This is reflected everywhere: in the life cycle of a star or a planet, a physical body, a tree, a flower; in the rise and fall of nations, political systems, civilizations; and in the inevitable cycles of gain and loss in the life of an individual.
There are cycles of success, when things come to you and thrive, and cycles of failure, when they wither or disintegrate and you have to let them go in order to make room for new things to arise, or for transformation to happen. If you cling and resist at that point, it means you are refusing to go with the flow of life, and you WILL suffer.”
~Eckhart Tolle, from “The Power of Now”
When it seems impossible to stop in the midst of turmoil and suffering and search for blessings, remember that all the times that seemed so traumatic in the past now seem, in retrospect, to have been valuable growth experiences. The former alcoholic almost always blesses his drunkenness. The wealthy person praises his earlier poverty. The recovered heart attack patient values the experience of illness. The happy couple extols the pain of their separation. Every despairing time has served to bring you to a higher, happier place in your life. Therefore, I urge you to stop considering any life experience in terms of despair.
Imagine yourself looking back at this particular moment and use the hope of growing beneficially from the experience, to stop self-pity. Let despair dissolve into gratitude for the opportunity it truly represents.
Wayne W. Dyer, “There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem”
Think of the one area of life that brings you the most discomfort, and know that’s where you’re ripe for growth. Never fails…
The Universe
Bees suck nectar from many different flowers, and then make honey. One drop of honey cannot claim to come from one flower, and another drop of honey from another flower.
The Upanishads
Events that impact our lives, both good and bad, positive and negative, do not have a time limit on them. For me the lesson out of this experience is the opportunity for spiritual growth that exists when we have a deep loss, which often gets lost in the emotion of grief. The reminder that tomorrow is promised to no one (and neither is today) and the moment at hand is really all we have. It may not seem like it, but grief is a wake-up call of the highest order. The never-ending cycle of life that takes us over the same roads again and again to learn from different experiences, at varying levels of consciousness, is to make sure we stay awake, and that we need to pay attention to what is being offered, even if it is disguised as unbearable pain.
We become more aware of the gift of life, every time we are confronted by death, which is a concept that the ego has a hard time with, until it happens to someone close to us. Then, we are laid bare, and at our most vulnerable, but also more alive as grief reveals our hearts when they are most needed-and all that is unnecessary is washed away.
John St. Augustine, “Phenomena”
What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
Rumi
The firecracker cries aloud, “I am the light!” and is finished in a moment. The diamond, shining its light constantly, never says a word about its light.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place, the darkness disappears…
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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