What is soothing for the soul is enjoyment

What is soothing for the soul is enjoyment.  How often do you do such a thing?  It is that small child within every human experience that throws tantrums and shakes and quakes with fear.  Here is the embodiment of illusion; it is called life on Earth.  At times it is not pretty, it is not sane, it is not loving, it is not who you are.  

But there is something called knowledge, which when lived as truth becomes wisdom. And, my children, you are equipped to deal and conquer very succinctly any challenges that befall you. Your strength and your love will carry you through. 

Shams of Tabriz

The longest journey

The longest journey, perhaps the most difficult trek, the most intense traveling is to the self.  It is not traversing the world; it is meandering through the desert of the ego, of the frightened false and small self.   

It is going through the brambles and the briars that others have put in our way, and somehow we have given permission that these things grow and they prosper because they were right.  We realize now that they were not, they never were.  

And what comes from that and what flows to the surface is realization, that there’s a different way.  What is that different way?  It’s you.  

Buddha