Bodytribe

    Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey

    to the ocean of meanings.

    The stream knows it can’t stay on the mountain.

    Leave and don’t look away from the sun as you go,

    in whose light you’re sometimes crescent, sometimes full.

    — Rumi

“Rumi wanted us to understand one thing - the path to deep understanding, which could be called the path to enlightenment - is an “easy” path. It is a downhill path. It is a guided, illuminated, clear, direct path, Human beings have been making the journey difficult or impossible for themselves for 100,000 generations. This doesn’t make the path difficult. The difficulty lies in our resistance to self-responsibility.”

“Balance, in life, involves giving up on thinking anything is ’so,’ and accepting that all things ’simply are.’ Balance involves letting go of having to enforce our judgments on others (we never get over judging - we all judge, all the time. The question is what we do with the judgments. If we beat up on ourselves or others, we have not learned balance.)?”                                        

                      - Wayne C. Allen, The Phoenix Center