Greetings and Happy Spring - 5/18

Hope your spring is going well so far and commitment to practice is alive and well, whether it be a 5 second pause, 30 minute sit, communing with nature or being fully present when engaging with another person.

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Pain

And a woman spoke, saying Tell us of Pain.

And he said:

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that

encloses your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that

its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the

daily miracles of your life, your pain would not

seem less wondrous than your joy;

And you would accept the seasons of your heart,

even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.

And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Much of your pain is self-chosen,

It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility:

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided

by the tender hand of the Unseen,

And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips,

has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with

His own sacred tears.

From The Prophet, by Kahil Gibran