It is not easy maintaining our boundaries

It is not easy maintaining our boundaries and staying clear of another’s destiny.  We want the best, we wish to be compassionate, give love, listen and be understanding.  Truth be told, listening is usually the best healing balm for any supposed malady that afflicts a soul.

Few of us live as the clear river.  It is when the ego personality infects a situation that attachments begin and prosper.  We become the stone or the fallen tree that becomes the dam.  And we spend so much of our time bemoaning such a thing that stands in our natural way.

It is wise, we suggest, to hover gently above the drama, as that is where you become the clear river.  That is the land of noticing, not the desert of judgments.
Rumi