Dancing with myself

Men come for counselling because they want something to change. The challenge they face is that for something to change, something needs to die. Change and death are dance partners. What ends here?

Life leads

Make no plans. Or as Jesus said, “Take no thought for tomorrow.” Re-stated in the positive: Let life lead. Welcome what comes. All of it. No exceptions, exclusions or judgements. “This being human is a guest house,” Rumi wrote. “Every morning a new arrival.”

True religion

We are what we pay attention to. If I attend to the breath, I am that. Breath awareness transcends our differences. Rumi: “Bringing breath to life is the essence of every true religion.”

Individualism loses its grip

The more we grow into the Self, the less special we are. “Become nothing,” wrote Rumi, “and He’ll turn you into everything.”

All and everything

In these conflagrant times, it does us well to sip from Sufi’s cup: “This too shall pass.”