The Mysterion: Rumi and the Secret of Becoming Fully Human

To acquire this kind of being is to become illuminated, to be connected to a greater Intelligence that will guide us step by step on the way. The developed soul, instead of living in fear and uncertainty, becomes more and more able to trust the unfolding of life.

This perception of the condition of humanity is not elitism. In this view there is no judging others as inferior and imagining oneself to be superior. That would be just another aspect of this state of sleep we are referring to. The presence of the soul is beyond such judging.

this desire to gain the approval of others leads us further and further away from our inner being, our essential self.

The ego’s strategies attempt to avoid reality, but obviously there is a price to pay for denying reality. In the end, the ego will prove to be its own worst enemy. The harm the ego does, it does mostly to itself.

Within ourselves, in our core, is a power, a sacred impulse, a holographic sample of the Infinite, that is waiting to be purified and focused.

We are souls in progress, integrating into ourselves the invisible qualities and virtues of a spiritual reality that is our birthright.

The simple fact is that the most significant, satisfying, and enduring experiences that we have are experiences of meaning found through relationships with other human beings, with ourselves, and ultimately with something much greater than ourselves.

study your reactions, judgments, and opinions, to not give them so much importance,

Faithlessness is to get caught in trying to satisfy all the ego’s contradictory desires. Faithlessness is to take life as an end in itself and to forget that there is a greater reality behind the circumstances and immediate satisfactions of life. It is the tendency of the lower self to make life, and even the spiritual path, into an arena for its o