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March 9, 2010 #263 Rumi wrote, “Seek the path that demands your whole being, ” which is a perfect dictate at any time, but particularly timely this week as Mars turns direct. It is important to dream again, to regain faith, especially if efforts have felt on hold, and projects waylaid. Our desires, our will, and intentions are resuming forward motion, and while we may have no more control than we did before, by next week we will feel like we do. When faith and hope are stranded by low tides, it is particularly difficult to keep dreams aloft, never mind set sail on unknown seas. Creating ones life demands faith and hope to be front and center, not mired in needless drama, and wasted effort. To hoist sail toward the unknown, brings up fear. When fear is part of a process, then fear is part of the answer, and Rumi’s ‘whole being’ has little room for that. Fear stinks. We smell it and shrink, abandoning that large, whole, incandescent Self. Becoming a whole being is to become efficient in what we are deficient. 15 years ago I had no patience, little compassion, and lots of judgment, but I had a dream. This dream has yet to manifest. But I have grown bushels of patience and compassion, and greatly reduced my judgment in the pursuit of this vision. Perhaps those were my true quests? Perhaps the vision I had hoped for was only a by-product to get me here, free of stanky low tides, sailing across wide oceans of discovery? Who is to know these things? Sit with what brings you solace. Take faith as you may. Hold hope lightly. We are moving on, becoming and dreaming, dreaming and becoming. Asana: Ganda Bherundasana/Feet to Cheek Pose, otherwise known as terrible… Read more »