I would like to show you a book

I would like to show you a book, if you would allow yourself a moment or two to witness it.  It is complete; it is perfect in every way.  It is a rather simple depiction of love, the culmination of focused commitment, work and self-expression.  Why do I speak of such a thing?  Every life is a book.  Every chapter is a culmination of experience and a bringing forward of change.  There is no role model or yardstick by which to measure the evolving soul.  We grow because we cannot do anything but.

It is time to awaken that God part that lives within you.  And upon awakening many things will change; the world will shift and your perception of life will follow and nothing will ever be the same because you will not see it as such.

So, beloveds, again I say, the past deserves to be where it is.  It is the great lament, the great deterrent to a joyous today.  Do not be fooled into thinking you can change that which is no more.  You can change how you feel about it now, and that is sufficient.  That is all you need do.
Rumi